Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic. – Michael Shermer
But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. – Michael Shermer
Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion. – Michael Shermer
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of lifes caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known. – Michael Shermer
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth…. It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air. – William Gilmore Simms, Egeria: Or, Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods a