Been Quote by Michael Shermer

I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know.

— Michael Shermer

“According to Dembski, for example, “scientific creationism has prior religious commitments whereas intelligent design does not.”

— Michael Shermer

The first-cause and prime-mover argument, brilliantly proffered by St. Thomas Aquinas in the fourteenth century (and brilliantly refuted by David Hume in the eighteenth…

— Michael Shermer

“Mind is just a word we use to describe neural activity in the brain. No brain, no mind. We know this because if a…

— Michael Shermer

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever…

— Michael Shermer

I always accepted the libertarian position of minimum regulation in the sale and use of firearms because I placed guns under the beneficial rubric…

— Michael Shermer

If spirituality is the sense of awe and humility in the face of the creation, what could be more awesome and humbling than the…

— Michael Shermer

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields…

— Michael Shermer

“Yet basically, libertarians are for freedom and liberty for individuals, while recognizing that in order to be free we must also be protected. Your…

— Michael Shermer

Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.

— Michael Shermer

When religious believers invoke miracles and acts of creation ex nihilo, that is the end of the search for them, whereas for scientists, the…

— Michael Shermer

Darwin matters because evolution matters. Evolution matters because science matters. Science matters because it is the preeminent story of our age, an epic saga…

— Michael Shermer