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We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

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Michael Shermer
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: September 8
Historian Of Science
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Psychologist
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Glendale
California
USA
Michael Brant Shermer
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I just witnessed an event so mysterious that it shook my skepticism.
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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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Science is the best tool ever devised for understanding how the world works.
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The price of liberty is, in addition to eternal vigilance, eternal patience with the vacuous blather occasionally expressed from behind the shield of free speech.
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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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Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga about who we are, where we came from and where we are going.
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Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.
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Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.
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Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.
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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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When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
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