Skeptic: Examining Extraordinary Claims and Promoting Science
Skeptic Magazine, Volume 13 Number 2
Table of Contents
Cover Story
Richard Dawkins
- Dawkins v. Collins Debate
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A skeptical analysis of the Time magazine debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins
- The Skeptic’s Chaplain
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Richard Dawkins as a
Fountainhead of Skepticism
- Two reviews of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion
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What a Friend
We Have in Dawkins -
Plus a sidebar:
Two Paths to Skepticism -
The Science Delusion
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What a Friend
- An Elemental Impulse
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Religion is so Powerful that Even Soviet Antireligious Policy Failed
- Who Designed That?
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Creationism’s Doubts About Intelligent Design
Forum
- Letters
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Pooches May be Smarter Than We Think
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Pooches May be Smarter Than We Think
News
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The Secret Behind
“The Secret” -
What is Attracting Millions
to the “Law of Attraction”?
- Solomon’s House
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The Deeper Agenda of the New Creation Museum in Kentucky
The Future of Science
- Science Will Never Explain Everything — That is Why it is So Useful!
- The End of Science Revisited
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The Case for Incrementalism
in the Future of Science
Articles
- Why This Universe?
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Toward a Taxonomy of
Possible Explanations
- The Science of Friendship
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Where Evolutionary
Psychology Fails
Features
Junior Skeptic
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Evolution Part 2 —
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Nature too perfect to have evolved? How do we know that evolution happened? If apes evolved into humans, why are there still apes? Where are the missing links? How do new species come about? Has anyone ever seen something evolve? Are there human footprints with dinosaur footprints? Are dinosaurs still alive in Africa? Do we know how life started? How could something as complicated as eyes evolve? What about religion? What’s wrong with the famous “March of Progress” illustration?
Reviews
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Mammoth in the Garden
Why Harmonizing Science and Religion is a Strong Human Need
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The Creationist Debate:
The Encounter Between the
Bible & the Historical Mind
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Creatures of Accident:
The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
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The Language of God:
a Scientist Presents
Evidence for Belief
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The Creationist Debate:
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Measuring the Deity
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The Measure of God.
Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science and Religion. The Story of the Gifford Lectures.
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Before Darwin.
Reconciling God and Nature
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The Measure of God.
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God’s Mind &
Alice’s Restaurant
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The Trouble with Physics:
The Rise of String Theory,
the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
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Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
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The Trouble with Physics:
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Dover, Pennsylvania:
The Battle for Our Children
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Monkey Girl
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Conspicuous by His Absence
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God: The Failed Hypothesis —
How Science Shows that
God Does Not Exist
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
This concise pamphlet provides answers to common objections to evolution, such as: If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans?; Only an intelligent designer could have made something as complex as an eye; The second law of thermo-dynamics proves that evolution is impossible; Evolution can’t account for morality; and more…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
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Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.