1. Where are our baloney detectors?
(Paranormal/General)

South Africans have been exposed to the psychic phenomenon over the past week – and we have clearly lost our baloney detectors.   First there was the visit of John Edward, t

2. Belief, God Genes, and the Findings of Science
(Religion/Atheism)

by George Claassen Is there any reason to still believe in God? Or are religious faith and reason incompatible?    I ask this because the pressure on scientists to become believers in God

3. Vatican rejects adoption of Italy's laws in historic shift
(Religion/General)

...ti, a leading Vatican expert, said the true cause of Vatican alarm was not only “liberal” Italan laws on divorce and abortion but also a “trend in European legislation” which &...

4. Put a Little Science in Your Life
(Science/General)

...the modern era. Certainly, when it comes to teaching the technicalities — solving this equation, balancing that reaction, grasping the discrete parts of the cell — the verticality of scien...

5. Is Comrades upsetting God?
(Religion/General)

...esuscitate, and Willem Malapi, 48, from Worcester, who went into cardiac arrest after an electrolyte imbalance. Athletics South Africa announced in 2006 that the race would no longer be run on June 1...

6. Psychic crackdown on the cards
(Paranormal/General)

...ed, a whole list of disclaimers must be added to the spiritualists' spiel if they are to avoid an avalanche of writs following the repeal next month of the Fraudulent Mediums Act, to be replaced b...

7. Getting the public to pay attention to good science
(Science/General)

...ed aversion to the uncertainties of science, and have to avoid presenting uncertainties as a matter of balance that's addressed via material from crackpots with credentials. Reposted from : http:...

8. God's journal
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...ng Answers Research Journal's inaugural article I'm afraid you were beaten to the pitch by Prof Alan Gillen at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia - a fundamentalist baptist institution....

9. The Catholic Church's devillish practice of exorcism
(Religion/General)

...ic, I would use those methods, yes. Lately I’ve been seeing a professional person who seems very balanced, expect she feels demons are ruining her life. Sometimes she speaks with a voice that is...

10. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...ent cultures moralize? The Varieties of Moral Experience When anthropologists like Richard Shweder and Alan Fiske survey moral concerns across the globe, they find that a few themes keep popping up f...

11. Confessions of a Former Iridologist
(Medicine/General)

...magically to create a healthy unit. I believed that illness was the result of poor communication and imbalance between organ systems. I thought that herbal treatments fed the organ systems so that the...

12. Why (Almost All) Cosmologists are Atheists
(Religion/Atheism)

...he electromagnetic and nuclear forces. If the strong nuclear force had a slightly different value, the balance which characterizes stable nuclei would be upset, and the periodic table of the elements ...

13. Secret Societies Shape Western Politics
(Religion/General)

...rchill's daughter." Apart from the CFR in the US, Chatham House has branches in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, India and Holland and in these countries they are often called I...

14. God spoke to me
(Religion/General)

.../01/05/robertson-god-message/  Last night, Robertson appeared on Hannity and Colmes. When asked by Alan Colmes whether God had spoken to him about the election outcome, Robertson said he was &ldq...