Michael Shermer Religion Quotations

I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Believers can have both religion and science as long as there is no attempt to make A non-A, to make reality unreal, to turn naturalism into supernaturalism. (125)

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.