Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Articles

‘Twas Brillig…

The Oregon No-Vortex
by James Randi

Demon Haunted Times

Parents Complain:
Harry Geller Ban Out of Control
by Brandon Muller

Blame it on the Jews

Anti-Semitism and the History of Jewish Conspiracy Theories

Evolution & Design Section

A Devil’s Chaplin

by Richard Dawkins

Towards a Theology
of Evolution?

Humans were inevitable on Earth, but are we alone in the cosmos? by Simon Conway Morris

Inevitable Humans?
Or Hidden Agendas?

A review of Life’s Solutions: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris. by Donald R. Prothero

Unmasking Darwin’s Cathedral

It’s Not Just About Religion. A review of Darwin’s Cathedral: Evolution, Religion & The Nature of Society, by David Sloan Wilson
by Peter A. Corning

Is God in the Equations?

A review of The Emergence of Everything by Harold J. Morowitz
by Joe Cuchiara

Junior Skeptic

The Bermuda Triangle
written and illustrated
by Daniel Loxton

What Is the Bermuda Triangle?; What’s the Case For the Triangle? (Classic cases; Wild Theories!: A Closer Look!); Why Things Really Disappear in the Triangle.

The Vanishing Dollar Bill

by Bob Friedhoffer

News

New Resource Guide for Debunking Astronomical Pseudoscience; Infrasound as a Possible Source of Sensations of the Paranormal; Cell Phones and Ghosts; Biologists Produce Position Statement on Alternative Medicine, by L.A. Chotkowski, M.D., F.A.C.P.

Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded

The Big “Bright” Brouhaha

An Empirical Study on an
Emerging Skeptical Movement
by Michael Shermer

Reviews

Belief & the Nature
of the Divine

A review of Beyond Belief:
The Secret Gospel of Thomas,
by Elaine Pagels.
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Forum

Letters

“Time Travel”Fictions: Andrew Bernardin Responds to Critics; Roswell Aliens Not Anthropomorphic Dummies (But Not Aliens Either); More Lost Discoveries Nonsense; From Christian to Skeptic; From Muslim to Skeptic

Is the Universe Acausal,
and Does God Exist?

The Nostradamus of Comics!

Or the “Byrne Curse”

The Science of Stephen Wolfram Forum

Evolution & Creationism

Creationism’s
Expanding Universe

Linguistics may be the fundamentalist’s backdoor into the public education system
by L. Kirk Hagen

Macroevolution & Microcreationism

Another flaw in Intelligent Design Creationism…
by David Eller

Wiccans v. Creationists

An Empirical Study of How Two Systems of Belief Differ
by Raymond A. Eve

Who Made It?

The Isaac Newton Orrery Story: Another Mythic Tale Misused by Creationists
by Tom McIver