Skeptical Observations

Given the conditions of Jewish education in the United States, it is not surprising that so many children behave badly and learn little in H...

The diversity of religions presents a stubborn problem for Gould’s idea that religion has its own magisterium. The idea that the teaching au...

The criticisms that have been directed at Gould’s thesis of non-overlapping magisteria (for science, questions of how the natural world is; ...

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...