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

...d by human culture.”    The British scientist on the psychology of consciousness Susan Blackmore explains the difference between science and religion. The core of science is the scie...

2. Public schools flout national laws on religious instruction
(Religion/Enforced religion)

...tely be recognised and will thus NOT be protected against ignorance, stereotyping, caricaturisation, and blackballing.” Furthermore, these parents correctly emphasised in a letter to the princi...

3. Origin of the Specious: Race, lies and stereotypes in Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophy
(Religion/General)

... their brains.” (Rudolf Steiner, Health and Illness, Vol. 1, Anthroposophic Press, 1981.) The black or Negro race is substantially determined by these childhood characteristics.” (Rud...

4. God will, in fact, be mocked
(Religion/Atheism)

There is a song of Bob Dylan's, Highway 61 Revisited, that conjures up a little bit of black comedy in a dialogue that pretty much characterises the God of the Old Testament: God said to Abraham,

5. 'He said Satan told him to'
(Religion/General)

...aid Raboroko, declining to comment on reports that he was high on drugs. The boy had painted his face black and resembled the drummer of the band Slipknot, said Krugersdorp councillor Alex Raubenhe...

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

...for science to be transformative. I've seen children's eyes light up as I've told them about black holes and the Big Bang. I've spoken with high school dropouts who've stumbled on ...

7. Goblins in the cupboard
(Paranormal/General)

... ladder, putting our beds up on bricks, shutting our women away while they're menstruating, avoiding black cats, blaming lightning on witches or ill fortune on a curse. Not easily dislodged, these...

8. Make Way for Superfrog
(Science/General)

...d that the protrusions were an artifact of the preservation process. Harvard University biologists David Blackburn decided to solve the mystery once and for all after having the frequent misfortune of...

9. Darwin's Nemesis by William Dembski
(Book reviews/Reviews)

...n Reynolds (Introduction), Stephen C Meyer (ch 1, 12), Michael J Behe, known for his work Darwin’s black box (see p 46) (ch 2), William A Dembski (ch 5) and Walter L Bradley (ch 18). Part III, e...

10. Russell T Davies: Return of the (tea) Time Lord
(Good news/Humour)

...ix feet six inches tall, he waves his big hands around a lot... except when he's pushing the chunky, black-framed glasses back on his broad face, or running a hand through fluffy hair that, frankl...

11. Cult leader Pyotr Kuznetsov tries suicide after realising he was wrong about doomsday
(Religion/General)

... Orthodox Christians and not cult members." Villagers said that the cult followers, who wear long black robes, came to Nikolskoye from other regions of Russia and even from Belarus. Police and ...

12. The Great Tantra Challenge
(Paranormal/General)

...u, the president of Rationalist International, challenged India's most "powerful" tantrik (black magician) to demonstrate his powers on him. That was the beginning of an unprecedented ex...

13. More Americans leaving religious ties of their youth
(Religion/General)

...in the U.S. have three or more children living at home. •Of all the major racial and ethnic groups, black Americans are the most likely to report a formal religious affiliation. Even among unaffi...

14. Is Europe a Country?
(Science/General)

...is the capital of what European country?" Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. "I thought Europe was a country," she said. Playing it safe, sh...

15. Dumb and Dumber: Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge?
(Science/General)

...is the capital of what European country?" Ms. Pickler threw up both hands and looked at the large blackboard perplexed. "I thought Europe was a country," she said. Playing it safe, sh...

16. Atheist sees image of Big Bang in Piece of Toast
(Good news/Humour)

...about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. However the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs as well as the changing s...

17. Down’s syndrome bombers kill 91
(Religion/General)

...igious taboos, they have obvious appeal for terrorists because they can conceal explosives beneath their black robes — abayas — and usually escape the rigorous body searches to which men a...

18. Numerology : Your number's up
(SA Media watch/Nonsense alert)

...f course know you're a witch, don't you?" Who was I to disagree? Maybe that explains why my black cat found me, and not the other way round. Spot on But there were some fascinating thing...

19. Krugel: 'Maddie lies here'
(Science/Daniel Krugel)

... he has developed. The site he outlined to be searched for Madeleine's body is a wasteland, full of black refuse bags, building rubble and rocks, and is located only 900m away from the Ocean Club...

20. Banned From Church
(Religion/General)

... calling it a "private ecclesiastical matter." He did say that while the church does not "blacklist" anyone, a strict reading of the Bible requires pastors to punish disobedient me...

21. Lewis Black - The Devil's Handiwork
(Religion/General)

Lewis Black talking about issues of faith and science. fmSfkCRsU0s   VidPost

22. The Moral Instinct
(Religion/General)

...the choice, was found in respondents from Europe, Asia and North and South America; among men and women, blacks and whites, teenagers and octogenarians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Christians, Jews an...

23. The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe
(Good news/All)

The Skeptics Guide to the Universe is a weekly Podcast talkshow produced by the New England Skeptical Society (NESS) in association with the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) : discussing the

24. The Great Afterlife Debate: Michael Shermer v. Deepak Chopra
(Religion/General)

...rips” induced by the extreme trauma of almost dying. Psychologist and paranormal researcher Susan Blackmore has taken the hallucination hypothesis one step further by demonstrating why differen...

25. I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions
(Medicine/Self Help)

...on and ideals within racial and ethnic groups makes it difficult to label self-help movements distinctly black or distinctly white, the tradition of community activism and volunteering cuts across Ame...

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

...ack area would likely represent back pain currently being experienced by the owner of the eye, whereas a black area in the lower back would suggest severe back injury that has disrupted the nerve acti...

27. Darwin and Hitler : Satan's dream team
(Religion/Atheism)

...f Icons of Evolution; Phillip Johnson, author of Darwin on Trial; Michael Behe, author of Darwin’s Black Box, and Ian Taylor, author of In the Minds of Men will show why evolution is a bad idea ...

28. Devolution
(Religion/Evolution vs Creationism)

...orking on intelligent design, and his arguments are by far the best known. His book "Darwin’s Black Box" (1996) was a surprise best-seller and was named by National Review as one of th...

29. About Sceptic SA
(Static Content)

Sceptics South Africa (SSA) (in Afrikaans, Skepties Suid-Afrika) is an organisation open to anyone who has a sceptical disposition to life, questioning the validity of claims by following the basic sc