Skeptical Observations

According to Stephen Jay Gould, s cience and religion have separate domains of teaching authority, or “non-overlapping magisteria.” If so, t...

How political conservatism distorts thinking about dangers to the public and the environment. An addendum to my previous entry , on the ab...

Self-fancied prophets, such as the Reverend Pat Robertson, have told us why God brought us the earthquake in Haiti, the volcanic eruption in...

Once you look into the meaning of “supernatural,” it becomes harder to sustain a distinction between “pure” and “mixed” supernatural beliefs...

Author Martin Gardner died today, May 22, 2010, at the age of 95. [Corrected date]  Martin Gardner with his The Annotated Alice Portr...

Certainly some beliefs are Jewish beliefs; only it is difficult to say which ones. If the question is whether a belief is an Orthodox Jewis...

Religious beliefs contain both natural and supernatural elements. The natural elements do more than the supernatural ones to make systems of...

The word “Jew” is odd enough considered merely as a phonetic phenomenon; it gets even funnier when you try to figure out exactly what it mea...