Skeptophilia

The Greek philosopher Socrates made a name for himself -- as well as a good many enemies -- by pouncing on people who were using words like ...

"If humans came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?" If there is one phrase that makes me want to throw a chair across the ...

Science has become the realm of specialists, and I am by nature a thoroughgoing generalist.  (Less kind words like "dilettante" an...

In a rather startling coincidence, just yesterday I wrote about how much the course of human evolution was constrained by our evolving in a ...

I remember how blown away I was when I first saw British science historian James Burke's documentary After the Warming , shortly after i...

My long-ago professor of evolutionary biology, Dr. Andrew Collins, once said, "The only reason humans came up with the concept of speci...

Every once in a while, I'll run across a piece of research that will make me think, "Ha!  How will the creationists explain that ?...