Wei: I was a born again evangelical christian in high school. Seven years later, in graduate school, i just finally just kind of gave it up. In part due to what em correspondent here was hinting at, just kind ofan understanding of how the world works, including coincidence. We've teld the story many times on potcass ive, written about it. And several of my books and so on. Gave this not unusual, particularly when i was in high school in the early seventies,. When you're a christian, you think all that happens for a reason. But when you're not achristian, it's clear there's no reason
In this AMA Dr. Michael Shermer answers your questions about evolution and creationism, intelligent design theory, the hard problem of consciousness, the origins of morality, how science deals with anomalies, to what extent humans are naturally rational or irrational / skeptical or gullible, and why there is something rather than nothing.