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One of the most annoying things I run across regularly is when someone takes a perfectly good piece of scientific research and twists it to ...

New from the "I Thought We Already Settled  This" department, we have: the West Virginia State Legislature has passed a bill , and...

Know what a kludge  is? Coined by writer Jackson Granholm in 1962, a kludge  is "an ill-assorted collection of poorly-matching parts, f...

Dear readers: I am going to take a long-overdue two-week break from writing here at Skeptophilia , so this will be my last post until Thursd...

If you are of the opinion that more evidence is necessary for demonstrating the correctness of the evolutionary model, I give you: a paper b...

There's a fundamental misunderstanding that even some people who understand and accept evolution have, and it's called teleology . ...

In case I needed another reason to be glad that I'm only a few years from retirement, a few days ago President-elect Trump nominated Bet...

Some days, we all need some good news, and I got mine when I heard over on Patheos  that the CEO of a public school district has ordered the...

One of the most common tropes that you hear in anti-evolution arguments is what they call the "problem of information."  The idea ...

Sometimes I see a piece of scientific research that is so brilliant, so elegant, all I can do is sit back in awestruck appreciation. Such ...

Is it just me, or are others noticing that the creationists seem to be getting a bit... desperate? I ask the question because this Saturda...

Here we go again. Last week, the Springboro (Ohio) City Community School District announced that they are considering a policy that would...