The Skeptics Society & Skeptic magazine

Cover Story
Richard Dawkins

Dawkins v. Collins Debate

A skeptical analysis of the Time magazine debate between Richard Dawkins and Francis Collins
by Gary J.Whittenberger

The Skeptic’s Chaplain

Richard Dawkins as a
Fountainhead of Skepticism
by Michael Shermer

Two reviews of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion

What a Friend
We Have in Dawkins

Plus a sidebar:
Two Paths to Skepticism by Norman Levitt

The Science Delusion
by Deepak Chopra

An Elemental Impulse

Religion is so Powerful that Even Soviet Antireligious Policy Failed
by Paul Gabel

Who Designed That?

Creationism’s Doubts About Intelligent Design
by Tom McIver

Forum

Letters

Pooches May be Smarter Than We Think
by Jason Loxton

News

The Secret Behind
“The Secret”

What is Attracting Millions
to the “Law of Attraction”?
by Ingrid Hansen Smythe

Solomon’s House

The Deeper Agenda of the New Creation Museum in Kentucky
by Stephen T.Asma

The Future of Science

Science Will Never Explain Everything — That is Why it is So Useful! by Robert Ehrlich

The End of Science Revisited

The Case for Incrementalism
in the Future of Science
by Mordechai (Moti) Ben-Ari

Articles

Why This Universe?

Toward a Taxonomy of
Possible Explanations
by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

The Science of Friendship

Where Evolutionary
Psychology Fails
by Mark Vernon

Features

The SkepDoc

Bioidentical Hormones: Estrogen is Good. No, it’s Bad. No, it’s Good
by Harriet Hall, M.D.

Junior Skeptic

Evolution Part 2 —
Frequently Asked Questions
written by Daniel Loxton; illustrations by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith

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

Mammoth in the Garden
Why Harmonizing Science and Religion is a Strong Human Need
reviewed by Paul Gross

• The Creationist Debate:
  The Encounter Between the
  Bible & the Historical Mind
  by Arthur McCalla
• Creatures of Accident:
  The Rise of the Animal Kingdom
  by Wallace Arthur
• The Language of God:
  a Scientist Presents
  Evidence for Belief
  by Francis S. Collins

Measuring the Deity
reviewed by Warren Allmon

• The Measure of God.
  Our Century-Long Struggle to Reconcile Science and Religion. The Story of the Gifford Lectures.
  by Larry Witham
• Before Darwin.
  Reconciling God and Nature
  by Keith Stewart Thomson

God’s Mind &
Alice’s Restaurant
reviewed by James N. Gardner

• The Trouble with Physics:
  The Rise of String Theory,
  the Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
  by Lee Smolin
• Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law
  by Peter Woit

Dover, Pennsylvania:
The Battle for Our Children
reviewed by Tim Callahan

Monkey Girl
by Edward Humes

Conspicuous by His Absence
reviewed by David Ludden

God: The Failed Hypothesis —
How Science Shows that
God Does Not Exist
by Victor J. Stenger