Hokum-Balderdash Assay

God: Why, look who's here! What took you so long? You: Uhh, what do you mean, God? God: Duh! 30 years ago I prepared a welcome feast for...

Philosopher Simon Blackburn reviews Karen Armstrong's latest opus: The Case for God: What Religion Really Means . Armstrong is a forme...

Learned of the following via the Center for Inquiry . It's an article by physicist Lawrence Krauss in yesteday's Wall Street Journal...

Via Michael Nielsen Religion does turn some into pricks.

A friend brought to my attention (via a forwarded email that has been circulating for some time it seems) a certain Professor Jane Plant who...

What's wrong with the following argument? Mad men should be put in mental asylums. Annie's dad is mad--he just berated her for one f...

Three years ago Oprah lent her weight to a book entitled A Million Little Pieces , written by James Frey. It's an autobiography about hi...

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...