The question itself [of UFOs] I think is legitimate. It's interesting, it's fascinating. It's mythic in scale and one of the grand questions. It's like the God question or, you know, the meaning-of-life question. It's one of those, on that scale. So you'd have to be made of wood not to be interested and, you know, have they come here? Are they up there?
Michael ShermerThe concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
Michael ShermerIn science, if an idea is not falsifiable, it is not that it is wrong, it is that we cannot determine if it is wrong, and thus it is not even wrong.
Michael ShermerRemember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.
Michael Shermer