Stephen Jay Gould on Science and Religion According to Stephen Jay Gould, s cience and religion have separate domains of teaching authority, or “non-overlapping magisteria.” If so, t...

Lewis Black on Creationism Lewis Black explains why Christians get the “Old Testament” wrong. I explain how Black gets George W. Bush wrong—to some degree. Here i...

Superstition and Jewish Observance Whether a religious practice is superstitious depends on what its practitioners think that they are doing: one and the same practice may be ...

Is the Existence of God a Matter of Probabilities? To treat the question whether God exists as a matter of probabilities seems to some people completely natural and to some utterly perverse. ...

From Satanism Libel to Blood Libel: This Time, It’s Coming from Haitians The right-wing evangelical defamation of Voodoo does not end with the misrepresentation of the Bois Caïman gathering as a Satanic pact: it ...