Hokum-Balderdash Assay

The latest from the Vatican : Cardinal William Levada, head of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the Cathol...

Imagine there's this top pilot, the best in the world. S/he can fly any plane blindfolded from the smallest to the biggest, commercial o...

A group of women--at least two of whom are purportedly scientists--have started what they dub The Faith of Britain . And they have marked Ma...

In an ad campaign by atheists in London late last year they had buses bearing the slogan "There probably is no God. So stop worrying an...

Months ago I came across news that psychologist David Myers was coming out with his latest book A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists...

Some months ago I came across a Del Monte pineapple juice ad that touted the product as an aid in ridding the body of toxins. Upon hearing t...

Hey, what do you know? Jesus' pretend birthday is coming up again. This dude is really special. The chosen one. The Son of a Gun. You se...

Last Friday shoppers who'd been waiting outside a Wal-Mart for hours burst into the store, tragically trampling to death one of its em...

I have much respect for physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg. He's an atheist and has little qualms in calling a spade a ...

I am overjoyed that America has chosen its first African-American president. Barack Obama is the man of the hour and for the hour. I'm n...

I just received the following spam SMS (formatting and caps as in original): Hi there Nikki here There is only ONE TRUE GOD. Christians Un...

In a city in Mindoro, Philippines, some two dozen students mostly female have experienced "seizures" in the past two months. The I...

The brouhaha is now all over the blogosphere. Instead of swallowing the consecrated wafer given to him by the priest, a college student too...

Former Thailand prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has sagely advice for his troubled country: Be patient with the headache-inducing situati...

I just learned via psychologist of religion Michael Nielsen that later this year psychologist David Myers ' new book, A Friendly Letter...

Wishful thinking is part and parcel of childhood. The brains of the young are still very much in the process of developing "higher...

I recently discovered that the Philippine Star has daily theological one-liners printed at the bottom margin of the back page. You can'...

It's one thing when the man and woman on the street trips and makes a logical booboo. It's brow-raising and elicits incredulity when...

Just got wind of a 3-year Stanford University clinical trial that's underway to study the efficacy of Healing Touch (HT) [1]. What is HT...

That deluded priest Fernando Suarez is back in the country. At the end of this month the Pied Piper is leading his flock to Montemaria, Bat...