Michael Shermer
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September 08, 1954
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Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954 in Glendale, California) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating and debunking pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members.
Shermer is also the producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown. Since April 2004, he has been a monthly columnist for Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Once a fundamentalist Christian, Shermer now describes himself as an agnostic nontheist and an advocate for humanist philosophy.
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"Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not."
— Michael Shermer
— Michael Shermer
"There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
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— Michael Shermer
"Accepting evolution does not force us to jettison our morals and ethics, and rejecting evolution does not ensure their constancy."
— Michael Shermer (Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design)
— Michael Shermer (Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design)
