Debunked decades ago as a 14th century forgery.
If the basis of religious belief is faith, why do believers continue to insist they have physical evidence—here in the form of a burial shroud of someone whom a 1st century Jew would resemble not at all.

There's a psychological theory about this Christina Buttons called Terror Management Theory, which I debunk in Heavens on Earth.
People are not motivated to be creative & productive out of death terror.
Most people don't think about it because they have better things to do.

BTW, if you think Republicans' anti-abortion/birth control policies is a counter to the birth dearth, remember the Romanian experiment under Nicolae Ceaușescu banning abortion/birth control & paying women to have babies. Result: massive increase in orphanage populations,

In keeping with Stein's Law—Things that can't go on forever won't—the Population Bomb predictions of Paul Ehrlich & Club of Rome delimiters are not only wrong but spectacularly so. We are heading for a massive birth dearth.
Will they admit they were wrong?
No
Will they take

Fabulous read by the author. This is as good as The Year of Living Biblically. Well done A.J. Hilarious scenario going into a Starbucks with a musket

“I’m sorry to inform you that unfortunately we will have to cancel the event on Friday. I’m sorry it’s so last minute, but in light of the information from Dr. Boudry, many of the members in the committee did not feel comfortable giving Dr. Coyne and Dr. Boudry a platform given

What are UFOs and UAPs?
Joe Rogan & I break it down in 13 minutes here.
Extraterrestrial spacecraft?
Russian/Chinese drones?
Ordinary objects: balloons, flares, planes, birds, blimps, Venus, meteors, space junk, satellites, swamp gas, ball lightning, ice crystals, lens flares...?

This is one of the best short definitions of anti-Semitism I've seen: Jew(ish) hatred represent whatever it is that civilizations or societies obsess about:
Christ-killers
Drinkers of Christian blood
Greedy capitalists
Conquering colonialists
Genocidal murderers
...

I'm in!

Matthew 21:28-31
The Parable of the Two Sons
28 A man had two sons; and he went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work in the vineyard today.’
29 And he answered, ‘I will not’; but afterward he repented and went.
30 And he went to the second and said the same; and he

By the way, while I was recording the episode with Michelle Dowd about how her cult leader said the world would end in 1977, this arrived in my mail.
Coincidence? Or is God trying to tell me something? A sign of the times indeed!

P.S. there is an audio edition read by Michelle Dowd brilliantly. Astonishing how anyone survives religious cults like The Field. Resiliency + anti-fragility + intelligence + wisdom.

Just finished a podcast convo w/ Michelle Dowd about her gripping story of growing up in a cult, what it's like believing the end is nigh at age 7, physical/sexual abuse, survivalist training, why men want to control female sexuality, how to read the Bible...
Will release soon.

Someone made this video on '10 Minutes of Religion being Pulled Apart by Michael Shermer'
It's a highlights reel from a several debates, along with illustrative graphics visualizing events and ideas in the history of religion. Nicely done! Thanks.
Enjoy...

Well, Randy W Kirk - "The Elon Musk Mission" - On Amazon , if it turns out I'm wrong & there is a God, it's Yahweh & Jesus is son & savior, if I am given a chance to explain myself I might say something like this:

Lord, I did the best I could with the tools you granted me. You gave me a brain to think skeptically

The great neuroscientist Christof Koch tackles the hard problem of consciousness by altering his own and reporting from inside his skull.
Great convo.
I contend that the 'what it's like to be X' (a bat, you) is a conceptually problematic thought experiment
skeptic.com/michael-sherme…

Why God does not exist.
My best arguments against the proposition that God does exist, at the Oxford Union Society debate.
(I know, you can't prove a negative, but there is substantial positive evidence that humans created the God concept, which I present here.)

Today's Daily Awe courtesy of the Police:

There's a little black spot on the sun today...
15x the size of Earth

I have spoken 3 times on the TED main stage:
2006 in Monterey:
ted.com/talks/michael_…
2010 in Long Beach:
ted.com/talks/michael_…
2014 in Vancouver for the TED All-Stars—5 minutes on science, reason & moral progress. Not as widely promoted or viewed as the others so here it is:

What happens when we die?
Joe Rogan and I break it down in under 10 minutes here.
Much more in my book Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia:
a.co/d/eVFn816