Michael Shermer Quotes

People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time ac...

Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty forindividuals, while recognizing that in or...

Rather than there being two distinct and unambiguous categories ofconstrained and unconstrained (or ...

Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine m...

Any preference for my group's interests over yours must be justified by some unbiased, disinterested...

Evolution provides a scientific foundation for the core values shared by most Christians and conserv...

Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution doe...

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the w...

Perceiving the world as well designed and thus the product of a designer, and even seeing divine pro...

Intelligent Design is a remarkably uncreative theory that abandons the search for understanding at t...

Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or...

For Paley, a watch is purposeful and thus must have been created by a being with a purpose. A watch ...

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light stre...

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the ear...

...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith...

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals th...

Science operates in the natural, not the supernatural. In fact, I go so far as to state that there i...

Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about pa...

Having a Nobel Prize or being a famous scientist will get you a week to a week and a half, metaphori...

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or...

There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the o...

...Spinoza’s Conjecture:“Belief comes quickly and naturally, skepticism is slow and unnatural, and m...

As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and persona...

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior in...

Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible...

Myths, whether in written or visual form, serve a vital role of asking unanswerable questions and pr...

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally science requires training.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.