Indie Skeptics

I’ve known Phd. candidate Evelyn Mervine for many years now, and if there’s one thing she is, it’s science-based. It seems she may have inherited this trait from her father Mark, whose background is in nuclear engineering. In a rare moment of sober and sensible talk during this crisis in Japan, Evelyn shared with us [...]

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On a recent visit to Portland, Maine on the Jewel of the Seas, my partner Jen and I found ourselves in a bit of a bind. I grew up in Salem, Massachusetts – a mere 90 minutes from Portland, and it was hard for me to think of the small portside city as a “destination.” [...]

Chicago skeptic Bruce Critelli has created and interesting and ambitious new project: he’s going to read the entire King James Version of the Bible and blog about it. His approach is fresh and open. He reads the passage, posts a “modern” summary of what occurred, and asks a pertinent question. So far, he’s been getting [...]

Just a quick note… despite the irony apparent from my posts about the separation of skepticism and atheism, I’ll be publishing several articles about atheism in the next few days. Why? Because that’s what people are writing about. Though I think it’s very important to draw a line between skepticism and atheism, I think we [...]

Yes, a provocative title. When I see a question like that, I presume that the author has already concluded in the affirmative and is about to explain why I should believe as s/he does. However, I only put that title there for a reaction. I don’t believe “atheists are delusional” and I think the question [...]

Just a few notes and updates… Things are going well at IndieSkeptics! Thanks to everyone who’s posted. We have an increasing number of readers (numbering in the hundreds per day) and articles keep coming in. I’ve been a bit slow in posting them because of other projects.

I am guilty. If I believed in such a thing, I’d say that I have sinned. I have a level of pride in the knowledge I’ve attained over the years – much of it very basic, but some if it arcane – and I fear that this pride may have blinded me to a greater [...]

I have not bothered to count to four, for I am very angry, and I believe the time for swearing is upon me. What the hell are they thinking? I refer to the trustees of the Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. This is the one of the final homes that Mark Twain [...]