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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
Historian Of Science
Journalist
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Psychologist
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Glendale
California
USA
Michael Brant Shermer
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Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.
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The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognition — thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.
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Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.
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In the long run, it is better to understand the way the world really is rather than how we would like it to be.
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Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy.
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Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.
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There is a significant difference between having no belief in a God and believing there is no God.
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But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.
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Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.
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Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.
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Skepticism is not a position skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.
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I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. How can we tell the difference between what we would like to be true and what is actually true? The answer is science.
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Science is not the affirmation of a set of beliefs but a process of inquiry aimed at building a testable body of knowledge constantly open to rejection or confirmation. In science, knowledge is fluid and certainty fleeting. That is at the heart of its limitations. It is also its greatest strength.
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait that is, a human universal.
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We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.
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In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.
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