Michael Shermer Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons.

  Michael Shermer

  Smart, Believe, People

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.297, Holt Paperbacks

• In the past 10,000 years, humans have devised roughly 100,000 religions based on roughly 2,500 gods. So the only difference between myself and the believers is that I am skeptical of 2,500 gods whereas they are skeptical of 2,499 gods. We're only one God away from total agreement.

  Michael Shermer

  Funny, God, Atheist

• 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.

  Michael Shermer

  Past, Rejection, Religion

  Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.145, Holt Paperbacks

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

  Michael Shermer

  Emotional, Religion, Atheism

• The concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).

  Michael Shermer

  Ideas, Design, Brain

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

  Michael Shermer

  Prayer, Religion, Labs

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