Shermer's recent spooky experience with a radio initially suggested he was wavering in his commitment to skepticism. Useful comparisons to John, George, and Ringo are less forthcoming, however. Like Paul, Shermer began to preach and teach, writing for Scientific American in the Skeptics column, writing books like Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (as well as the far more exciting Cycling: Endurance and Speed ), and lecturing across the US on topics ranging from Holocaust denial to creationism (which he aptly calls Evolution Denial). Elbert, in Colorado, when he realized that all the pseudoscience, ( prayer, New Age pyramids, meditation, and homeopathy) would not take the pain of 10 years of cycling away, and that these remedies and the philosophies behind them were bunk. Like Paul, Shermer found his way on the long (bike) road to Damascus Mt. Shermer stated the final end of his Christian faith was when a girl was paralyzed in a motor accident. Later still Shermer studied psychology and became more skeptical about Christian belief, finally becoming an atheist/agnostic/skeptic. During adolescence Shermer became a born again, fundamentalist Christian and later even got a theology degree at a Christian university.
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