Alert icon
We're changing our privacy policy. This stuff matters.  Learn more  Dismiss

Michael Shermer 1/5 (The Amazing Meeting 3)

Loading...

Sign in or sign up now!
19,479
Loading...
Alert icon
Sign in or sign up now!
Alert icon

Uploaded by on Jan 17, 2008

Dr. Michael Shermer is the founder of Skeptic Magazine as well as author of "The Science of Good & Evil", Why People Believe Weird Things", "Why Dawkins Matters", and many other great works.

At The Amazing Meeting 3 Shermer gave a great presentation and spoke about his then new book "Science Friction".

Category:

People & Blogs

Tags:

License:

Standard YouTube License

  • likes, 5 dislikes

Link to this comment:

Share to:

Top Comments

  • "There's no transitions"

    Acanthostega, Archaeopteryx, Ambulocetus, Artiocetus, Aetiocetus, Australopithecus, to not even leave the "A's".

    "What evolutionary process can create information?"

    If you define DNA as "information" evolution easily explains how more "information" can be created; it's called mutation.

    "THAT is the ONLY logical 'answer'."

    It is the least logical and needs a visit from Ockham and his razor.

    "It most certainly did not evolve."

    It most certainly did.

  • Science tests science

    Distillers test spirit

see all

All Comments (44)

Sign In or Sign Up now to post a comment!
  • Please explain why is the video 4/5 not posted nor the video 5/5 for Million dollar Challenge not posted? This is extremely agravating!!!

  • @haldarin isnt that exactly what he said?

  • At 4 min and 50 sec. There are actually 9 two by two squares :P

    4 three by three squares, 1 four by four square and 16 1 by one squares.

    Adds up to 30 ;)

  • Anyone else think he looks like a young, American Jonathan Pryce?

  • Idols are the profouded fallacies of the mind of men.

    Bacon says...

    So making him an idol would be faulty - that was my contradiction. Not so important I know - but I could not help notice.

  • @sumvlac

    Did you mean to say: DID YOU MEAN TO SAY?

  • This is Bacon's best stuff and Shermer does a good job giving an overview.

  • I am danich - we say kritik he he

    I guess I did not fully comprehend the idol of Bacon the first time I saw and heard it. It seemed as if the distorted mind would not make way to any scientific truth - hence a contradiction, but I might be wrong. A scientific truth is truthful as long as a majority or the most kunning say it is so -

Loading...

0 / 00Unsaved Playlist Return to active list
    1. Your queue is empty. Add videos to your queue using this button:
      or sign in to load a different list.
    Loading...Loading...Saving...
    • Clear all videos from this list
    • Learn more