Skeptical Inquirer
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Articles in March-April 2007 issue of Skeptical Inquirer
- Philosophy behind pseudoscience
by Gary Grothman - Science, God, and Belief
by Kendrick Frazier - Male pregnancy
by Benjamin Radford - Prayer: a neurological inquiry: are silent prayers transmissible to, or readable by, a supernatural being? A brief examination of this question using modern information about the brain
by David C. Haas - Letter to a Christian Nation
by Kendrick Frazier - CFI Washington office opens, issues declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism
- Is science gaining new ground? Introduction
by Kendrick Frazier - Bible stories: a sociologist looks at implausible beliefs in Genesis: the ongoing debate between scientists and creationists has ignored the contradictions contained in Genesis
by Allan Mazur - War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO
by Kendrick Frazier - Declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism: at its inaugural press conference on November 14, the newly established Washington, D.C., office of the Center for Inquiry released the text of this "Declaration in Defense of Science and Secularism.&
- A free-for-all on science and religion
by George Johnson - Old-time religion, old-time language: Jesus buried in Japan? Literal belief in the Tower of Babel? Hindu influence in the American Southwest? In the context of nonstandard claims by fringe scholars and revisionists about the remote past, religion and lang
by Mark Newbrook - Science + Art special issue
by Carl Gregory - Center for Inquiry launches Naturalism Research Project
by John Shook - Follies of the wise: the human penchant for disastrously confusing fantasy with fact is most plainly seen in the impulse to ascribe one's own concerns to divine powers and then to harden one's heart against unbelievers
by Frederick Crews - Pat Robertson's secret ingredient
by Stanley A. Rice - Chiropractic: a different look
by Russell W. Gibbons - Dr. Dino guilty on all counts in tax-fraud case, gets ten years
by Greg Martinez - The Religion Blues
by Alan Dean Foster - For the God question, a biological perspective
by Kendrick Frazier - Noah Vale
by Dennis Horvitz - NMSR's Annual Best and Worst Awards for 2006
- The clash of biotechnology and post-Christian spirituality: Christian fundamentalists and anti-biotech radicals may seem to have little in common. But at a root level both are driven by a fear of violating a transcendent, divine authority
by Lee M. Silver - A renewal of Sagan's voice on science, religion, and survival
by Lauren Becker - Ibero-American Conference
by Marcia Levitus - Sci Fi Investigates, finds only pseudoscience
by Benjamin Radford - Fighting the Fundamentalists: Chamberlain or Churchill? We who think that biblical literalism has no place in science classrooms should be standing together and fighting ignorance and prejudice. Why then do those of us against creationism live in a house
by Michael Ruse - Counterproductive mix of science and theology
by William D. Stansfield - Rewriting SETI history
by Timothy Ferris - Mysterious entities of the Pacific Northwest, Part II
by Joe Nickell - Thank goodness! What happens after a noted atheist philosopher undergoes harrowing emergency heart surgery? Does he have an epiphany? And whom does he thank? Some reflections on life, prayer , and medicine
by Daniel C. Dennett - Intellectual and creative magnificence
by Kenneth W. Krause - Pluto and astrology
by P.W. Marsh - Is there such a thing as macroevolution?
by Massimo Pigliucci - Science's vast cosmic perspective eludes religion: an excerpt from the new book The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan - The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design
by Kendrick Frazier - Stuff of legends
by Paul Dale Roberts - Predator panic
- The incredible bouncing cow
by Robert Sheaffer - The Coulter hoax: how Ann Coulter exposed the intelligent design movement: Ann Coulter's treatment of evolutionary biology in her book Godless is best interpreted as a hoax, providing a scathing satire of the antievolution community
by Peter Olofsson - An Illusion of Harmony: Science and Religion in Islam
by Kendrick Frazier