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I have a problem with how people use the word miracle . The dictionary definition is "a surprising and welcome event that is not explic...

I got in a friendly argument online a few days ago with someone who finds my reliance on the scientific method "limited."  (His wo...

In today's News of the Surreal, we have: the Vatican is tightening the rules on what it's willing to call divine supernatural phenom...

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...

I've blogged before about "miraculous thinking" -- the idea that an unlikely occurrence somehow has to be a miracle simply bas...

Yesterday's political post resulted in five people calling me a "libtard snowflake" (or the equivalent), a recommendation to ...

Because we evidently needed another reason to facepalm over a Trump appointee, today we consider: John Fleming, assistant secretary for heal...

People on the left side of the political aisle are currently engaging in a good bit of gloom-and-doom prognostication.  I try not to make pr...

A report is in from Fresno, California that there is  a statue of the Virgin Mary in someone's house that is "weeping real tears....

New from the "You Really  Think The World Works That Way?" department, we have the edifying story of the guy who was in a fiery ca...

I walk a pretty fine line, here at Skeptophilia , between criticizing ideas and ridiculing the people who hold them.  And I'm sure that...