Friday, October 1, 2010

"Democracy's Laboratory"

10/1/10. Editor of Skeptic Magazine and a psychologist, Michael Shermer introduces his article in this month's Scientific American:

"DO YOU BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION? I do. But when I say 'I believe in evolution,' I mean something rather different than when I say 'I believe in liberal democracy.' Evolutionary theory is a science. Liberal democracy is a political philosophy that most of us think has little to do with science..."


http://www.michaelshermer.com/2010/09/democracys-laboratory/

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