Today's topic concerns one of the oldest forms of religious apologia: deliberately confusing the relationship between probability and mystery. ...

Last night I had the privilege of speaking with particle physicist and New Atheist author Dr. Victor J. Stenger ...

The Energy Philosopher Episode 2: All thermal power plants require generous amounts of water, and become less efficient in hot weather. ...

I know it seems repetitive to keep talking about the climate, but until the dismal US Gallup climate numbers ...

The world remains mired in blind indifference to a primal scream emanating from our future. If we could hear it, ...

I've maintained that religion and spirituality are inversely correlated with high-functioning intelligence.  (previous article, Religion Rots Your Brain And ...

An article forwarded to me by a friend brings up the old New-Age argument, this time dolled up in ...

It's really nice to be able to discuss disagreements about political philosophy without being called a liar, lunatic, thief ...

The Singularity is a concept first discussed by Vernor Vinge in the 1980s. Later, Ray Kurzweil became one of its ...

According to NASA, the astronauts on the International Space Station are now beginning to drink water purified from their own urine, sweat, and exhalations. While it's been possible for ...

Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into ...

R Donaldson - February 2009 Water, Water It is most of what our bodies are made of, in some way included in ...

My good friend Adam Lee, also known as Ebonmuse, who runs one of the most popular and enduring atheist sites Daylight Atheism, wrote ...

Neurologist Laments Tech-Driven Brain Changes Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, could be facing an unprecedented crisis. ...

Variety is my bible. It's indispensable daily reading in my business. Which is why I was so incensed by their Expelled review. The ...

"People in the middle ages didn't know about radio waves, yet they were everywhere. They just didn't have receivers in those days. How can ...

As all students of Darwin know, evolution occurs when there is variation in a population; where some variants confer a survival or reproductive advantage to the individual, and where the ...

Recently I was called out by Elisheva Hannah Levin, a hypocritical homeschooling mom (supposedly a degreed Biologist). Levin balked at my stance (...

Addressing scientists Feb. 15, 2008 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Dietram Scheufele, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of life sciences communication, presented ...

Why Science "Sucks" (Is Damned Inconvenient) Nice piece from Wired on the sad state of the public perception of science. Though I disagree with the idea that science can't handle ...

Man and God, From the UK Times Online It has been a good year for atheists. Richard Dawkins’s book The God Delusion has sold more than ...

Well, for Leon R Kass’ benefit, the reality is that we are indeed a very small speck in a very large universe. It's also a reality that many of the ...

In January 1955, Homer Jacobson, a chemistry professor at Brooklyn College, published a paper called “Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life” in American Scientist, the journal of Sigma Xi, ...

New Planet Atheism blogger Tom Stelene (Al-Kafir Akbar!) seemed promising, but he moved quickly from some initial rational posts into full-bore "wingnut" climate-change ...

Last night I was visited by this magnificent lifeform and I grabbed my camera. Even funnier that I had just watched Pan's Labyrinth which has a central character modeled after ...