Time for some legitimate nonsense, blurry lines and fuzzy sets.Luckily, I am not a scientist but do believe in lighting a candle rather than stumbling around in the dark, so I enjoy these offerings.
Shermer may not be making any new arguments in the debate between evolution and Intelligent Design but this small book does the best job in articulating the questions, the weapons and the battlefield. Three and a half stars.
I loved this book when I was a kid. I'd go to the library and check out every book they had on UFOs, ghost sightings and unexplained phenomena, and then I would add every skeptical book I could find to the pile. They were always more difficult to hunt down, but I loved reading about a mystery and th...
This isn't a cover to cover read - instead it's a series of abundant articles from a variety of sources on what it means to raise a child without organized religion. I admit I haven't read all of the articles and instead focused mainly on the sections titled 'Death and Consolation' and 'Living with...
Why: Okay, science is not my strong point. A review on the front says "Michael Shermer makes exploring reality with your child a delightful investment in science literacy." Let's hope so. The review reminds me of Lily Tomlin's assertion that "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in tou...
The bit I liked best in this book was his categorisation of the different shades of belief in the Intelligent Design/Creationism spectrum. I hadn't understood that there was such a lot of variety; points of view range from the straightforwardly loopy (the world was created in 4004 B.C. and there wer...
This is a joint review of this book and How We BelieveShermer postulates that humans have evolved a belief module that helps us find patterns in what appears otherwise to be a meaningless universe. (Why we feel compelled to find meaning in everything continues to puzzle me.) Until about four hundred...
Really it's a list of logic errors, which is the kind of thing I need to re-familiarize myself with from time to time. Because historically, I've been one of those people who are appalled to hear that "gullible" doesn't appear in the dictionary. I have to work at being skeptical.2007 February 25
VANGUARD Exclusive with Peter Boghossian 8 May 2013He wants to help people getting out of "faith"Good concept. He don't just deal with religion, he deal with all kind of faith base shit.Also, he rightly believed that people of faith is not automatically make a person good. It is just a wrong way of...
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