201. Michael Shermer on Evolution, I.D. Theory, Consciousness, Morality, Gullibility, and Nothing (AMA # 7)

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Michael Shermer

Dialogue, Science, Reason, Michaelshermer, Natural Sciences, Skeptic

4.4 • 921 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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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.

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0:15.2	Welcome to the Michael Schurmer Show. I'm your host, Michael Schurmer. This episode is brought to you by Wundrium, the former great courses, who you've heard me talk about quite a bit because I've consumed their courses for decades and I produced a couple courses on conspiracies and skepticism 101 and now they've expanded to include documentary series and films and all different kinds of audio and video
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1:48.3	alternative facts, then this is the place to go. That's what we have been doing for 30 years.
1:54.0	Sadly, unfortunately, this is coming out of time, this 201st episode here, this AMA.
2:02.0	Upon the death of my... and first episode here this AMA.
2:10.1	Upon the death of my longtime friend and co-founder of the Society and magazine Pat Lindsey, here's a picture of Pat. And I'll be doing a full tribute to her on a special edition of the
2:18.0	podcast when we released the next issue of the magazine which was just about to go to press when Pat died on July 24th.
2:27.2	So we scrapped a whole final section of the magazine and are devoting that to her.
2:33.8	And so I wrote a tribute which I will read
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