On the same day that I posted my modest comments about Michael Shermer vs. Deepak Chopra, Shermer put an hysterical and informative piece on Skeptiblog. Here’s a priceless example comparing the traditional deity to the new one that Chopra is concocting:
God 1.0 | God 2.0 |
omnipresent fully man/fully God miracles leap of faith transubstantiation Council of Rome supernatural forces heaven hell eternity prayer the Godhead the Trinity forgiveness of sin virgin birth resurrection | non-local wave/particle duality wave-function collapse quantum leap Heisenberg uncertainty principle Copenhagen interpretation anti-matter dark energy dark matter space/time continuum quantum entanglement general relativity special relativity quantum erasure quantum decoherence virtual reality |
Michael Shermer is one of the best science writers around. He is responsible for Skeptic magazine and a regular columnist for Scientific American. In the months to come I will review his outstanding book, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time.
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