Michael Shermer Quotes About Evidence

Quotes about: Evidence

• 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

  Faith, Religious, Emotional

• Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

  Michael Shermer

  Soul, Doe, Evidence

  Michael Shermer (2016). “Skeptic: Viewing the World with a Rational Eye”, p.260, Henry Holt and Company

• The whole point of faith, in fact, is to believe regardless of the evidence, which is the very antithesis of science.

  Michael Shermer

  Atheist, Believe, Facts

  Michael Shermer (2003). “How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God”, p.407, Macmillan

• We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

  Michael Shermer

  Anatomy And Physiology, Paleontology, Molecular Biology

  Michael Shermer (2007). “Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design”, p.51, Macmillan

• In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Argument

  Michael Shermer (2010). “Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown”, p.197, Macmillan

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