"Creationists have also changed their name ... to……" — Michael Shermer
"Creationists have also changed their name ... to intelligent design theorists who study 'irreducible complexity' and the 'abrupt appearance' of life-yet more jargon for 'God did it.' ... Notice that they have no interest in replacing evolution with native American creation myths or including the Code of Hammarabi alongside the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools."
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97 Quotes by Michael Shermer
Michael Shermer has 97 quotes on this site.
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The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of…
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People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest…
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice.…
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Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed…
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Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
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The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive…
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Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost…
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Scientists like Bjorn Lomborg in The Skeptical Environmentalist have, in my opinion, properly nailed environmental extremists for these exaggerated scenarios.
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Because of the complexity of the problem, environmental skepticism was once tenable. No longer. It is time to flip from…
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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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The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I…
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More Abrupt Quotes
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one of 47 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading…
— Albert Einstein
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned -…
— Peter Drucker
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My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
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Hence the Bible has no record of his years of preparation; the record is very abrupt. Something about his childhood…
— Rajneesh
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We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it…
— Jean-Andre Deluc
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He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic.…
— Unknown Author
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly…
— Yuri Gagarin
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Like Jesus, we can decide, daily or instantly, to give no heed to temptation (see D&C 20:22). We can respond…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done…
— Graham Swift
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The sudden and abrupt deletion of all individuals occupying the lower bands of the Tone Scale from the social order…
— L. Ron Hubbard
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