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In the believing brain, he has written a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide. I also find michael shermer to be a sort of kindred soul as i found myself nodding. The ewu presidents forum for critical thought and the daniel and margaret carper foundation present bestselling author michael shermer for a discussion of how we construct beliefs. Michael shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things from alien abductions to dowsing rods boils down to two of the brains most basic, hardwired survival skills. So one of my recent columns in scientific american was called sky gods for skeptics, or as they used to call it, aliens for atheists. From ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths by michael shermer in chm, djvu, fb3 download ebook. Bestselling author michael shermers comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born. From april 2001 january 2019, michael shermer wrote the skeptic column for scientific american. Why believing in aliens is religion in disguise michael.
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