Paul smith from australia says, you have mentioned in a few podcasts that when mormon women are asked, they frequently respond that they like being a sister wife. Your rejoinder to this is along the lines of, how could they know? They've been embedded in this way of life forever. They have no experience of monogamy. To compare it with question is this: Is the same not true and reversed? That is, how can people imbedded in a monogamous environment for their entire lives know that their way is better? This is a really good question, cause, of course, we're all imbedded into our particular cultures. In many, many societies
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.