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Michael Shermer

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

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

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"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."
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"No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process."
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"When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience."
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"We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization."
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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training."
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"Plato wove historical fact into literary myth."
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"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
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