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One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about this...

When I was an undergraduate, I sang in the University of Louisiana Choir in a production of Franz Josef Haydn's spectacular choral work ...

The idea of Intelligent Design is pretty flimsy, at least when it comes to biology.  The argument boils down to something the ID proponents ...

A regular reader of Skeptophilia  had an interesting response to a recent post wherein I considered the strong and weak versions of the Anth...

William Shatner, of Star Trek  fame, wrote some profoundly moving words in his book Boldly Go , about his experience riding into space on J...

One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about th...

Online Critical Thinking course -- free for a short time! This week, we're launching a course called Introduction to Critical Thinking...

There's this idea that the creationists just love, and it's called the Strong Anthropic Principle .  The idea of the Strong Anthropi...

I received a response to a recent post in the form of an (actually quite friendly) email that posed a question I've been asked before, a...