Hokum-Balderdash Assay

A summary of blogosphere reactions to Dennett's Breaking the Spell Among them Brian Leiter's: At Leiter Reports , University of Tex...

Daniel Dennett is interviewed by Point of Inquiry . He discusses his latest book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon .

Mathematician John Allen Paulos offers us the following food for thought: What's wrong with the following not quite impeccable...

Ever had a winning streak? Did your adrenaline start pumping when you first realized that you were on a roll? Were you excited and at the sa...

The audio of Richard Dawkins' two-part film Root of All Evil? which aired in the UK last month is available on the Net for down...

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 9/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? (via Pharyngula )

Whoa! Guess it's no longer just Nigerian prelates. Some in the Vatican have had it too: "Enough now with this turning the other ...

If we knew for certain that there is an afterlife, we wouldn’t have great debates about it, and philosophers wouldn’t have spilled...

Professor of New Testament Gerd Luedemann writes of the " intolerant gospel ": While "peace" is a central theme in Holy...

From the Consumer Health Digest . The Washington Department of Health has ordered Barbara Brewitt and her company Biomed Comm, Inc . to stop...

Christians are about to run out of cheeks to turn: Nigeria's main Christian body has said it may no longer be able to contain Christian...

And the hubbub .

The threat of terrorism has a way of making you think twice: Among those who decline to show the caricatures, only one, the Boston Phoenix,...

In two large studies it was discovered that There was a significant association between being prayed for and being re-admitted as a result ...

But the Italians, I mean Romans, had their own ingenious way of snuffing you out. So why not flaunt it and adorn your schools with the contr...

The NCSE 700 Club . Hits the spot after a rather vexing evening.

Results of a long-term study involving around 49,000 post-menopausal women shows "no statistically significant difference ... in the r...

An amateur evangelist preaching to the gallery confidently pontificated that whether we believe it or not after our tour of duty on this pla...

Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis asks a very revealing question: "Boys and girls," Ham said. If a teacher so much as mentions evolu...

In his talk " Naturalism: The Next Step for Humanists ?" ( Part 2 ) before the Freethought Association of Western Michigan, Center...