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There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.
[G. C. Lichtenberg (1742-99), German physicist, philosopher. Aphorisms, "Notebook L," aph. 16 (written 1765-99; tr. by R. J. Hollingdale, 1990)]
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Let us all doff our hats in astonished disbelief at the brazen arrogance of the people who have created the Carl Sagan Institute in Brazil. That is, the Carl Sagan Institute…of UFOlogy. That's right, a cranky gang of saucernuts have...
Posted on September 2, 2008 3:41 PM • 139 Comments
Sastra here. I'm about halfway through, and really enjoying, Robert Price's new book, Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms. Bob Price has an interesting background: he started out as a roaring Pentacostal Minister, gradually grew into a high-end...
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Posted on August 10, 2008 1:43 PM • 168 Comments
It has been announced that Phil Plait is to be the new president of the James Randi Educational Foundation. This can't be. I've never been entertained by Phil doing a card trick. Besides, James Randi is supposed to go on...
Posted on August 4, 2008 10:10 AM • 66 Comments
One of the splendid people I met in Denver told me about her attendance at a bizarre lecture a few months ago — and she sent me a link to her summary. If you want to experience a second hand...
Posted on July 5, 2008 1:49 PM • 214 Comments
Yesterday, I blitzed through a tiny slice of the Mensa meeting in Denver. My time was really tight, so after arriving on Thursday for a fabulous Pharyngufest, I only got to sit through two talks in the morning session...
Posted on July 5, 2008 9:09 AM • 231 Comments
Posted on June 30, 2008 9:28 AM • 48 Comments
Lest Phelps and the Texas Supreme Court leave the unfortunate impression that the US is the sole repository of lunacy in the world, Ben Goldacre's latest column is about linking mobile phone signals to suicides — there's a bit of...
Posted on June 28, 2008 6:43 PM • 72 Comments
This weekend has been busy — yesterday, I gave my talk at the Amaz!ng Meeting, and I think it went OK. I tried to go against type and gave a talk that was all science and biology*, no debunking, no...
Posted on June 21, 2008 10:50 AM • 26 Comments
As you read this, I'm on an airplane winging off to Las Vegas for The Amazing Meeting (Amazing Schedule here). I understand that I am expected to be Amazing, but usually all I can manage is a low-key Interesting, so...
Posted on June 19, 2008 11:53 AM • 60 Comments
Colleen Leduc has an autistic child named Victoria who is enrolled in a public school. She recently got a terrifying phone call — her daughter was being sexually abused. We parents know well the fear and worry a threat to...
Posted on June 19, 2008 7:26 AM • 241 Comments
Minnesota is a pretty darn good state, usually fairly progressive, but sometimes…sometimes it can plunge off the deep end into the credulous muck of woo. My state has just approved the title of doctor for naturopaths. I imagine the MDs...
Posted on June 10, 2008 12:53 PM • 293 Comments
Richard Dawkins interviewed Rupert Sheldrake on Sheldrake's remarkable assertions about the existence of psychic abilities. Here's Sheldrake's rationalization: He then said that in a romantic spirit he himself would like to believe in telepathy, but there just wasn't any evidence...
Posted on June 8, 2008 1:54 PM • 138 Comments
There are 7 more parts to this — follow the related videos at youtube....
Posted on June 2, 2008 1:25 PM • 162 Comments
My brief summary of the position of apologists for religion, The Courtier's Reply, continues to rankle the believers, and they continue to make responses that only make me laugh at their cluelessness. The standard rebuttal is to claim that I...
Posted on May 28, 2008 6:02 AM • 790 Comments
Mars seems to bring out the kooks. I was pointed to the bizarre Xenotech "research" site, which consists entirely of the delusional fantasies of Sir Charles W. Shults III, Scientist (yes, that's what he calls himself). His research program?...
Posted on April 25, 2008 10:09 AM • 61 Comments
