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Well, Tuesday came and went, and no one got Raptured. Not that I was expecting to go myself.  If anything, it was more likely the ground wou...

A year and a half or so ago I wrote a piece about some of the biblical apocrypha -- books and epistles and letters and whatnot that didn...

As I write this, I'm waiting for the Rapture (it was supposed to happen on Tuesday, but evidently got postponed a few days), so I figure...

Can I make the not-very-earthshattering observation that if you are explaining evidence supporting a belief, your argument is not made stron...

From the Spectacular Backfire department, today we have: the guy who sponsored a bill to crack down on "pornographic and inappropriate...

A loyal reader of Skeptophilia  asked me, rather offhand, if I'd heard of "British Israelism."  I hadn't, and he went on t...

One of the most wonderful things about science is the role creativity has in discovery.  Problems that have been considered somewhere betwee...

In today's contribution from the Department of Specious Statistics, the owner of a biblical timeline business and self-proclaimed mathem...

Can I make the not-very-earthshattering observation that if you are explaining evidence supporting a belief, your argument is not made stron...