One of the world's top skeptics of religion casts a cold eye on secular attempts to create utopia and immortality.

Religion and philosophy have had their say for thousands of years what’s moral and not moral. I’m just saying let’s add to our quiver the arrow of science You can save this article by ...

Michael Shermer and Francisco Ayala discuss the theory that religious belief is hard-wired in humans by evolution.

Science expert Michael Shermer joins Larry Mantle to talk about the latest science stories in the news including the Columbia shuttle disaster, the death of Dolly the cloned sheep, new theories on ...

Michael Shermer would argue that we’re living in the most moral period in the history of humanity. “Things really are getting better. There’s never been a better time to be alive than now ...

As a prominent critic of superstition, Shermer is predictably harsh on religion, blaming it for the Crusades and Inquisitions (fair) but also the Civil War and World War I (hmm).

Michael Shermer on Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, discussed his collection of writings on free speech, religion, polit… ...

Michael Shermer The Romanian government, and especially the public school system, should not be in the religion business, should not teach any religion in any schools to any students, especially in ...

How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science, by Michael Shermer How do we believe, especially believe in God? Do we believe for rational reasons? Is a leap of faith rational or irrational?

Michael Shermer is the publisher of Skeptic magazine, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and a presidential fellow at Chapman University.

Author and skeptic Michael Shermer will speak about science and a moral world at Portland State University on Jan. 29, 2015.