Reviews and Criticisms of Michael Behe’s book: Darwin’s Black Box:
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution… Read the rest

Enlightenment, we should equally remember, means replacing half-baked notions and myths with facts.… Read the rest

It is not possible to insult or defame someone who has been dead for 1,374 years.… Read the rest

Taken for granted now, but it hasn’t always been.… Read the rest

Deborah Lipstadt discusses how misinformation and false claims are used to question the reality of the Nazis’ attempt to exterminate Europe’s Jews.… Read the rest

Attempts to reconcile science and religion usually fail because religions make claims about the real world that don’t stand up to scientific scrutiny.… Read the rest

Many who fear the rise of Islamophobia veer away from critical analysis of Islamic claims and practices, perhaps for fear of what they might find.… Read the rest

Creationism sheds its Dogpatch image and takes a subtler approach.… Read the rest

Vardy schools accord equal importance to both creationism and theories of evolution.… Read the rest

‘It’s a bug that has taken hold of me without asking my permission.’… Read the rest

Not for fans of the saint… Read the rest

You can be certain and be wrong.… Read the rest

How human relationships are being pushed in new directions by virtual worlds.… Read the rest

Ruse sees Richard Dawkins as the atheist’s Billy Graham… Read the rest

Mental disorders come and go.… Read the rest

‘Did Freud lie?’ is the great question.… Read the rest

‘Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive.’… Read the rest

Michael Bérubé on the Chomskian left and obfuscation… Read the rest

Jesus is reading The Philosophers’ Magazine.… Read the rest

Increasing involvement of philosophers with evolutionary biology testifies to the emergence of the discipline to the center of public interest in science.… Read the rest