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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<\/a>.\u00a0 Here\u2019s a priceless example comparing the traditional deity to the new one that Chopra is concocting:<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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God 1.0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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God 2.0<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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omnipresent<\/span><\/div>\n
fully man\/fully God<\/span><\/div>\n
miracles<\/span><\/div>\n
leap of faith<\/span><\/div>\n
transubstantiation<\/span><\/div>\n
Council of Rome<\/span><\/div>\n
supernatural forces<\/span><\/div>\n
heaven<\/span><\/div>\n
hell<\/span><\/div>\n
eternity<\/span><\/div>\n
prayer<\/span><\/div>\n
the Godhead<\/span><\/div>\n
the Trinity<\/span><\/div>\n
forgiveness of sin<\/span><\/div>\n
virgin birth<\/span><\/div>\n
resurrection<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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non-local<\/span><\/div>\n
wave\/particle duality<\/span><\/div>\n
wave-function collapse<\/span><\/div>\n
quantum leap<\/span><\/div>\n
Heisenberg uncertainty principle<\/span><\/div>\n
Copenhagen interpretation<\/span><\/div>\n
anti-matter<\/span><\/div>\n
dark energy<\/span><\/div>\n
dark matter<\/span><\/div>\n
space\/time continuum<\/span><\/div>\n
quantum entanglement<\/span><\/div>\n
general relativity<\/span><\/div>\n
special relativity<\/span><\/div>\n
quantum erasure<\/span><\/div>\n
quantum decoherence<\/span><\/div>\n
virtual reality<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Michael Shermer is one of the best science writers around.\u00a0 He is responsible for Skeptic<\/i> magazine and a regular columnist for Scientific American<\/i>.\u00a0 In the months to come I will review his outstanding book, Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time<\/i>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 Here\u2019s 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,25,29],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogentries","tag-atheism","tag-liberal-religions-and-theologies","tag-new-age"],"yoast_head":"\nShermer Vs. 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