Joan rose: Most people are pretty ration in most areas. But they have what i call logic, tight compartments. And that certainly seems to be religion. If you don't accept the resurrection of jesus, you're not a christian. Be a jew or a moslem, or don't be any of it. The lexness of it goes away when you think about different kinds of truths,. empirical truths, verses religious truths. You can throw in political truths as well and so on.
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.