This post originally appeared 15 September 2008. Here is a question I often give on exams: What is the probability that the next child to be born will be a…
Item The Future of American Sexuality and Family: Five Key Trends How many Americans have entered into civil same-sex marriages? It's hard to say, since same-sex households themselves have never…
Mentita est iniquita sibi... Iniquity, as always, lies to itself. And then to everyone else. Eastern Orthodoxy is no exception. Because it is a deception, masquerading as a belief. As…
One reason people doubt global-warming-of-doom is because of lousy philosophers like N. Ángel Pinillos (note the New York Times-sophisticated inclusion of the accent). He wrote a piece entitled (in some…
The plot atop this post is one of an observable, the cause of which is known to be related to a variety of physical, chemical, biological, geographical, and even sociological…
Pew has a new survey result with title Americans are far more religious than adults in other wealthy nations. Key was the picture below---or at their site, bigger and better,…
Guy Benson is a conservative talk radio personality" at Fox News. He made headlines last week after he proposed the impossible to a man in a rowboat in France. What…
Skeptic Michael Shermer is pleased the number of folks with no religious affiliation is growing, and will likely continue to grow. One estimate is that "there are more than 64…