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Michael Shermer
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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
Historian Of Science
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Glendale
California
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Michael Brant Shermer
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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
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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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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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No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.
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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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