Skeptical Observations

Stephen Jay Gould’s thesis that science and religion are “non-overlapping magisteria” has weaknesses enough when considered solely on the ba...

We typically use the plural noun “probabilities” only when speaking of events that are potentially repeatable, like throws of a pair of dice...

To treat the question whether God exists as a matter of probabilities seems to some people completely natural and to some utterly perverse. ...

The issue of whether the ancient Greeks could have had good evidence of the existence of their gods comes down to the issue of w...

Gary Gutting offers a double-layered agnosticism about the existence of the gods of ancient Greece: we are in no position to say with assu...

A terrorist attack may bring forth responses that are ugly, stupid, crazy, or all three, in various measures. But the most common response ...

People who believe crazy things are not necessarily crazy; but neither are beliefs sane just because the people who hold them are so. ...

A scientific theory that says nothing about the meaning, purpose, or value of human life is not for that reason a denial that there is any m...