Be nice? Wonder why he didn't give us background on himself... From wikipedia
Michael Shermer made a guest appearance in a 2004 episode of Penn&Teller's: Bullshit!, in which he argued that the Christian sacred text was "mythic storytelling" and that literal interpretation of events described therein would be "to miss the point of the Bible."[1] His stance was supported by the show's hosts, whose fierce atheist positions are renowned. The episode in question, The Bible: Fact or Fiction?, sought to debunk the notion that the Holy Bible is an empirically reliable historical record. Opposing Shermer was Dr. Paul Maier, professor of ancient history at Western Michigan University.
To be fair, the Bullshit! episode in question specifically addressed only selected stories from the Old Testament, not the Bible as a whole or even the New Testament at all.