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June 2008

June 23, 2008
I can think of at least four different skeptical approaches to miracle claims. The Big...
June 19, 2008
I don't think that philosophical defenders of theism could ply their trade without employing tu...
June 17, 2008
ReachMD, an XM radio channel appealing to medical professionals, is running an interview with me...
June 16, 2008
Apparently, there are rumors that George W. Bush might be thinking of converting to Catholicism.Interesting....
June 11, 2008
Take a look at Ed Fremouw's short article, "Science and Religion: A Personal Synthesis," in...
June 09, 2008
Objections to Condition (5)I have previously argued that the following condition in Richard Purtill's definition...
June 07, 2008
I just did another interview with Point of Inquiry, the podcast associated with the Center...
June 07, 2008
I just went through Charles Colson and Harold Fickett's The Faith: What Christians Believe, Why...
June 05, 2008
Dilemma for DawkinsProof of the existence of Zeus would either verify the claim that "God...
June 03, 2008
I've spent today lobbying Congress. Strange experience.I was part of a group of scientists and...
June 02, 2008
Former evangelical Christian and Bible college attendee Daniel Florien has put together a list of...

May 2008

May 29, 2008
Thew Secular Web has just put up my review of Totality Beliefs and the Religious...
May 24, 2008
The Happy Heretic, Judith Hayes's web site, is back online after an absence of two...
May 22, 2008
In a previous post (5/10/08), I began to examine a definition of "miracle" put forward...
May 21, 2008
According to a paper in PLoS Biology by Michael B. Berkman, Julianna Sandell Pacheco, and...
May 21, 2008
I apologize to everyone on behalf of physicists.The infamous Shroud of Turin, believed to be...
May 20, 2008
I ran into a former student who once took my Weird Science course. She's pretty...
May 16, 2008
I recently posted a rant concerning honor killings, using an Iraqi Muslim example. Well, I...
May 15, 2008
As I argued in my previous post ("Dawkins' Definition of 'God' ", 5/8/08), Dawkins' use...
May 13, 2008
Steven Pinker has a very good essay on The New Republic online, "The Stupidity of...
May 12, 2008
I can think of at least four different skeptical approaches to miracle claims. Each approach...
May 11, 2008
Here is a gut-wrenching story from The Guardian about a young Iraqi woman brutally killed...
May 10, 2008
In confronting miracle claims skeptics and naturalists look for flaws and weakness in the evidence...
May 09, 2008
Adnan Oktar, the public face of the very successful Harun Yahya Muslim creationist phenomenon based...
May 09, 2008
Here's another book I want to recommend: Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the...
May 08, 2008
The Conclusion of Chapter 4In the final paragraph of Chapter 4 of The God Delusion,...
May 07, 2008
A Turkish barber working in Saudi Arabia has been condemned to execution, based on testimony...
May 07, 2008
For a while now, I've been an Honorary Fellow of The Jefferson Center in Ashland,...
May 04, 2008
May 04, 2008
When you write skeptically on religion, you get some interesting reactions. My favorite so far...
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