Schrödinger's Poodle

Schrödinger's Poodle

Touching the Dragon

A skeptic fails to understand the God of the Bible

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Sarah Salviander
Nov 07, 2026
Invisible dragon by Peter sis: History, Analysis & Facts | Arthive
Invisible Dragon by (I think) Peter Sís

In a recent post on X, skeptic Michael Shermer turned to Carl Sagan’s famous invisible dragon analogy to try to demonstrate the emptiness of supernatural claims:

The epistemological problem behind the "supernatural" is illustrated by what I call (in Truth) Sagan's Dragon:

Imagine that I tell you that I have a dragon …

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