1. Ah, The Comfort of Knowing
(Blogs/Science and Government)

...e it or not depends on how well we understand it and the intensity of our desire to believe it. No matter how irrational or evil something might seem to others, if your desire to believe is strong eno...

2. Religion: Desperate Quest For Salvation
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...otherwise educated, intelligent people are driven to believe, or pretend to believe, and irritatingly promote irrational religious beliefs has been debated ever since man began to think. Could it be t...

3. Jet-lagged Intelligent Designer
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

... results from crossing international time zones. Some of its symptoms include disorientation, grogginess and irrational thinking. Now groups supporting teaching Creationism and Intelligent Design in...

4. The Slippery Slope of Irrational Hope
(Blogs/Science and Religion)

...their own rationality in favor of more comforting supernatural imaginings, they soon become vulnerable to the irrational opinions of others. Of course, some of these irrational opinions professed by w...

5. What is "Settled Science?"
(The Book/Overview)

...ty of people around the world do profess to believe in some kind of mystical or religious doctrine that seems irrational to others that don’t, the question is often asked, could all professing t...