Skeptophilia

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

Today we have three stories from the "I Swear I Am Not Making This Up" department, all of which revolve around various natural dis...

The Earth lost one of its most brilliant minds last week -- British physicist Stephen Hawking, who expanded our understanding of everything ...

I guess Ken Ham is finally seeing the handwriting on the wall with respect to "Ark Encounter," his $92 million temple to young-Ear...

Of all the worrisome trends I'm seeing in the world in general, and the United States in particular -- and there are a lot to choose fro...

I got in a rather interesting -- well, I suppose you could call it a "discussion" -- with a Trump supporter yesterday. It came a...

I have some friends who are currently trying to kill me. At least, that's the only interpretation I can put on the fact that their Chr...

One of the most wonderful moments in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  occurs when Ford Prefect and Arthur Dent ...

So yesterday, Ken Ham's flagship project Ark Encounter  opened with much fanfare, thus proving that it takes $102 million dollars and a ...

When I was young and foolish, I went through a period of messing around with Tarot cards.  They were cool-looking, and the book I got that e...

I guess it was too much to hope for that the opponents of marriage equality would say, "Oh.  I guess it's the law of the land now, ...

Is it just me, or is Ken Ham sounding a little... desperate these days? I suppose it's understandable.  Just last year his discrimina...

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