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It amazes me the mental gymnastics the biblical fundamentalists will go through to use scientific studies to shore up their contention that ...

A frequent reader and commenter on Skeptophilia sent me a note a few days ago, with a link and the cryptic comment, "Gordon, I think y...

Halloween is this Thursday, so you know what that means: pumpkin decorations and skeletons and ghosts everywhere, candy of all kinds for sal...

One of the problems with biblical literalism is that the bible has some pretty awful and bloodthirsty bits.  It's been observed more tha...

So now apparently it's a thing amongst the devoutly religious not only to believe that evolution is false, but that dinosaurs never exis...

It is probably my own lack of tolerance, empathy, and compassion that makes me laugh out loud when I hear the "arguments" people u...

So the Ham-on-Nye debate is history, and we science-minded types are breathing a sigh of relief that it went as well as it did.  As I point...

Yesterday I came across the world's dumbest conspiracy theory. I know I've said this before.  I said this about the claim that Pre...

I told myself that I wasn't going to write about Phil Robertson, the guy from Duck Dynasty who has become the darling of the Religious ...

Well, it's happened again.  Another person has refused to handle a piece of official paper because it was stamped with the number 666. ...

I wonder how many folks outside of the state of Arkansas have heard of Charlie Fuqua.  Fuqua is a former state representative, and is seekin...

Will Rogers once said, "If you find you've dug yourself into a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging." This is a lesso...