Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

We’re not here to persuade or to convince others of our positions necessarily. We’re here to listen generously.’ ...

Why woke failed Michael Shermer at Persuasion writes: A research proposal on cosmic inflation from an acclaimed German quantum physicist is rejected because she did not address the relevance of her ...

Ross Douthat on Trump, Mysticism and Psychedelics The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

Michael Shermer (L), founder of The Skeptics Society and his debate partner Heather Berlin, a cognitive neuroscientist (R) explain why "The More We Evolve, the Less We Need God" at an Intelligence ...

Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. His monthly essays, ...

Michael Shermer got his first clue that things were changing at Scientific American in late 2018. The author had been writing his “Skeptic” column for the magazine since 2001. His monthly essays, ...

There was no interrupting, no yelling, no hurled insults, no pounding the podium in this debate, despite its divisive and eternally consequential subject. Instead, the two speakers — Kyle Butt, a ...

The Apologetics Press’ Kyle Butt will debate Michael Shermer of the Skeptics Society and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine over that very question. This is not the first time both men have ...

'The truth still matters': An interview with Michael Shermer What do people really mean when they say they "believe" something? The founder of Skeptic magazine weighs in Biblical archaeology is ...

Michael Shermer is the founder and editor of Skeptic magazine and a presidential fellow at Chapman University. His latest book is “Conspiracy: Why the Rational Believe the Irrational”. He’ll be ...