Sandwalk

  Michael Egnor seems to concede that the theists were unable to come up with a good reason for believing in supernatural beings when I chal...

Misuse of the word "homology" is one of my pet peeves. 1 I used to regularly complain about it on talkorigins and I still challen...

  Just when I thought I was beginning to understand, along comes a Republican candidate for the US Senate who tells me that it's okay fo...

  Last month the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced a $1,990,459 grant to a team led by Paul Horwitz to teach evolution to fourth ...

  With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil — but for good people to do evil — that takes religion. S...

  This is National Chemistry Week in the United States of America. Janet Stemwedel reminded us [ Holy mole-y, it’s National Chemistry Week! ...

  "Dispatches from the Evolution Wars" by Glenn Branch, Eugenie C. Scott, and Joshua Rosenau of NCSE has been published in Annual ...

  Hemant Mehta of Friendly Atheist recently experienced a "conversion." He used to be an accommodationist but lately he's bec...

Frans de Waal is a biologist specializing in primate behavior—mostly non-human primates. He wrote an article for The New York Times on Mor...

  Here's an article from the Atlantic that everyone should read: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science . It highlights the efforts of ...

  According to his blog posting Mark Anthony Signorelli is, "is a poet, playwright, and essayist." He has a very strong opinion ab...

 

  Brother André will become Saint André this Sunday. The press in Canada is all agog over this event. Here's an old video from 1982 rela...

  Rosie Dimanno is a well known journalist who writes for The Toronto Star . Sometimes she's an investigative journalist and sometimes s...

  Royce Murray is a highly respected scientist. He doesn't like science blogs, a point he makes in an editorial published in Analytical ...