Hokum-Balderdash Assay

While washing baking sheets on Ash Wednesday a cafeteria worker found the following pattern on one of them. She asked her co-workers what i...

Dan Dennett asks a simple rhetorical question: Would you masturbate in front of your mother (or for that matter your father/grandparents/pas...

He's been sighted again. No pareidolia this time. It's Jesus in the flesh. In Gulu town, excited residents, many of them primary sc...

In a response to Alister McGrath, Richard Dawkins makes a most important point: [W]hereas I and other scientists are humble enough to say w...

Some are claiming that they've seen sparks emanating from the eyes of a steel and bronze statue of Jesus on exhibit at the Liverpool Ac...

Not a few Christians already accept evolution. And some of them are making it known publicly . Flocks of the Christian faithful in the US wi...

I have this friend who's been up in arms since the 2007 IPCC report on global warming came out. He's a skeptic. He doubts that globa...

Philosopher and author A.C. Grayling offers this challenge: What contribution has Christianity ever made to science? Looks like no one has c...

Psychology professor Steven Pinker has an enlightening piece on the brain and consciousness . Here's an excerpt: Although neither [the e...

Wonder how decomposed the corpse was when police found it. The body of a British woman was kept secretly for four months by her mother, who...

When I was a child, I used to pray to God for a bicycle. But then I realized that God didn't work in that way--so I stole a bike and pra...

This is an interesting and encouraging development. It seems that not all (male) Muslims approve of the veil . The Egyptian minister of reli...

In a public forum an adherent of the Members of the Church of God International shared the following quote which he said comes from Batman ...

Mary has made an appearance. This time as a stalagmite, in the meat section. The Virgin looks pretty phallic in this apparition, doesn'...

Just sighted the following bumper sticker (white fonts on red background) on the car in front of me. Took a picture of it using my phone...

Psychics and fortune tellers cost money. So why not consult a tree instead? People in Thailand have been flocking to visit a banana tree wh...

Carole Peach is a South African psychic. Unfortunately for her she failed to see that she was going to be robbed. She had no forewarning th...

Among the differences between an epistemology that actually works, i.e., one that gets us (closer) to the truth, and one that's bogus-...

Stories from the GiTMO closet: In October 2002, a U.S. Marine captain allegedly squatted over a copy of the Quran during intensive questi...

Psychics get their tips from spirits. Robertson receives his from an invisible sky daddy. Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday that a terrorist ...