When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.
Michael ShermerI am an atheist. There, I said it. Are you happy, all you atheists out there who have remonstrated with me for adopting the agnostic moniker? If "atheist" means someone who does not believe in God, then an atheist is what I am. But I detest all such labels. Call me what you like - humanist, secular humanist, agnostic, nonbeliever, nontheist, freethinker, heretic, or even bright. I prefer skeptic.
Michael ShermerThere are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades.
Michael ShermerThe concept of God is generated by a brain designed by evolution to find design in nature (a very recursive idea).
Michael Shermer