Skeptic magazine editor Michael Shermer is Director of the Skeptics Society (US) and adjunct assistant professor in the history of science at Occidental College (US).
Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
1 November 1998
IN THE beginning (specifically on October 23, 4004 B.C., at noon) out of quantum foam fluctuation God created the Big Bang out of inflationary cosmology. He saw that the Big Bang was very big, too big for creatures that could worship him, so He created the earth. And darkness was upon the face of the deep, so He commanded hydrogen atoms (which He created out of Quarks and other subatomic goodies) to fuse and become helium atoms and in the process release energy in the form of light. And the light-maker he called the sun, and the process He called fusion. And He saw the light was good because now He could see what he was doing. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
The Bible Code: One more weird thing to believe in
1 November 1997
The Bible (or, more precisely, the Torah) is a heavenly word-find puzzle, according to Israeli mathematicians.
How Thinking Goes Wrong Part II
1 August 1996
This is the second half of the article begun in the last NZ Skeptic
How Thinking Goes Wrong
1 May 1996
This article originally appeared in the excellent US magazine_ Skeptic_, edited by Shermer, (Vol 2 No 3) and also forms Chapter 4 of Shermer's book_ Hope Springs Eternal: How Pseudoscience Works and Why People Believe in It_. It's a thought-provoking piece which should be handy reference for any skeptic's library. This is part one of three.