Cuanot: Empirical science comes pretty late in the game of human evolution relief the last couple of centuries. So there's no reason to think that we're natural born scientists in that way, he says. Cuanot: Is it really possible that anyone, any republican, believes that democrats are running a secret satanic petafile ring out of a pezarea in washington? "I think most people don't believe it really"
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.