One night at the behest of his best friend George, whose parents were Christian, Shermer converted to Christianity. Shermer began his senior year of high school in 1971, when the evangelical movement in the United States was beginning to gain popularity. Īlthough Shermer went to Sunday school, he says that neither his biological parents, stepparents nor siblings were religious nor non-religious, as they did not discuss that topic often, nor did they attend church or pray together. His father died of a heart attack in 1986, and his mother of brain cancer in 2000. His parents divorced when he was four and later remarried, his mother to a man with three children, who became Shermer's step-sister and two step-brothers, and his father to a woman with whom he had two daughters, Shermer's half-sisters. Īn only child, he was raised in Southern California, primarily in the La Cañada Flintridge area.

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9.4 Public lectures, speeches and debates.

2 Graduate studies and change of beliefs.

He also describes himself as an advocate for humanist philosophy as well as the science of morality. He has expressed reservations about such labels for his lack of belief in a God, however, as he sees them being used in the service of ' pigeonholing', and prefers to simply be called a skeptic. He accepts the labels agnostic, nontheist, atheist and others. Shermer was once a fundamentalist Christian, but ceased to believe in the existence of God during his graduate studies.

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He is also a scientific advisor to the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH). From April 2001 to January 2019, he was a monthly contributor to Scientific American magazine with his Skeptic column. Shermer is producer and co-host of the 13-hour Fox Family television series Exploring the Unknown which was broadcast in 1999. Shermer engages in debates on topics pertaining to pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism. The Skeptics Society currently has over 55,000 members. Michael Brant Shermer (born September 8, 1954) is an American science writer, historian of science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and editor-in-chief of its magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. California State University, Fullerton ( MA)Įditor-in-chief of Skeptic, senior research fellow at Claremont Graduate University and adjunct professor at Chapman University

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