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Scientific American

April 1, 2001

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Colorful Pebbles and Darwin's Dictum

Science is an exquisite blend of data and theory

By Michael Shermer

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Michael Shermer is publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com) and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University. His new book is Heavens on Earth: The Scientific Search for the Afterlife, Immortality, and Utopia (Henry Holt, 2018).

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