Hokum-Balderdash Assay

Here's Sam Harris' speech last September at the Atheist Alliance International convention in Washington DC. I found myself wildly a...

Learned of the following "debate" featured in Newsweek via Skeptico . Sam Harris took on Rick Warren? Perhaps a tad unfair. Warr...

Imagine a Hindu and a Christian, both of whom have absolute faith (i.e., they firmly believe and harbor no doubts whatsoever) that their rel...

Christopher Hitchens has an observation that I'd like to expand on: One of America's most seminal books is William James's The ...

Someone recently forwarded the following to me. After reading it I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Lame" is too kind. An...

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 ...