Neither Intelligent nor Designed
Evolution succeeds where “Intelligent Design” fails in describing the natural world. Are you puzzled by the appearance of the words “Intelligent Design” in recent anti-evolution discourse? Most of us...
View ArticleThe Curse of Bodie: Legacy of Ghost-Town Ghosts?
Today, the ghost town of Bodie, California, is one of the most authentic abandoned gold- mining towns of the Old West (figure 1). It is also reputed to be a “ghost” town in another sense: Some claim,...
View ArticleThe Skeptic’s Dictionary
For almost a decade now, the online Skeptic’s Dictionary at www.skepdic.com has provided a beacon of light to cyberspace dwellers of all shades and flavors. Journalists, educators, students, doctors,...
View ArticleAnn Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time,...
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