Etienne Vermeersch (2 May 1934, Sint-Michiels, Bruges – 18 January 2019, Ghent) was a Belgian moral philosopher, skeptic, opinion maker and debater.

In January 2008, Vermeersch was chosen by hundred prominent Flemings as the most influential intellectual of Flanders.

In 1965 he obtained his PhD on the philosophical implications of information theory and cybernetics at Ghent University, Belgium.

The legalization of therapeutic cloning, which sparked heated debate in the Senate, overcame it thanks to its ethical considerations.

[6] In the 1990s there was some commotion in the Belgian media when Vermeersch wrote an article on rational and ethical grounds entitled Why the Christian God cannot exist.