This morning at an hour that I much prefer to be sleeping through Gretta Vosper of the Canadian Centre for Progressive Christianity and I faced off against Evangelical Christian Reverend Charles McVety on the topic of the Extraordinary Claims Campaign (”Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence: Allah * Bigfoot* UFOs* Homeopathy * Zeus [...]

The Centre for Inquiry’s Committee for the Advancement of Scientific Skepticism just submitted the following letter to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Health.  Please contact them at 613-992-3150 or cmteweb@parl.gc.ca in support:
216 Beverley St
Toronto ON
M5T 1Z3
info@cficanada.ca
mkrusecass@gmail.com
House of Commons Standing Committee on Health
c/o Christine Holke David, clerk
Sixth Floor, 131 Queen Street
House of Commons
Ottawa ON K1A [...]

Does anyone know what the point of this article is?:
Somehow, we have life:  Finding the Higgs boson particle may not end humanity’s petty squabbles — but it may cause us to pause for a moment and contemplate the greatest mystery of all
“Religion is back in a big way and it’s really making a mess of [...]

Has psychic Sylvia Browne aided the police to find a missing person?
In the case of the missing girl Opal Jennings, the answer was NO.
In the case of the missing boy Sean Hornbeck, the answer was NO.
In the case of the missing man Richard Kneebone, the answer was NO.
In the case of the missing woman Holly [...]

In the months leading up to the release of the new thriller “The Lost Symbol” there seems to have been a general turn away from Dan Brown and a deeper criticism of his writing style. While I admit his prose are extremely simple and his metaphors silly, I remain a fan of the [...]

It’s nice when Hollywood blockbusters make some attempt to get people excited about ancient civilizations or science, but couldn’t they avoid getting it all utterly wrong at least some of the time?  I won’t dwell on it in this post but “Knowing” with Nicholas Cage is one good example where they first tease you with [...]

This evening I was one of 3,000 people in the audience watching Dr. Chris DiCarlo debate Dr. Joe Boot on the eternal question “Does God Exist?”.  I don’t wish to report on the specifics of the debate, these encounters rarely being very different or innovative, and very little in my opinion being gained in the [...]

In the last post I mentioned how society has become so obsessed with demographic diversity that it would sacrifice diversity of opinion on its behalf.
At this point, whenever anyone mentions the word “diversity” my eyes roll.  As an atheist I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had my personal world view ‘corrected’ by those [...]

I was contacted by the Windsor Star just before the new year to comment on the story of a Windsor woman who painted a landscape that ended up “accidentally” displaying a hidden image of the face of the Son of God.   Don’t you hate it when someone gets in the way of a perfectly [...]

One year ago this Sunday, as the 2007 holiday season was drawing to a close and the 2008 New Year was upon us, I was invited, as a regular member of a Faith and Ethics panel for the Globe and Mail, to respond to respond to the following comment and question from the Editor:
The annual [...]

Though many of the points of view represented on this blog are opposed to the conventional received wisdom, I submit that they follow from a critical reflection of the available relevant evidence.  Evidence, in the form of meaningful statistics rather then emotional narratives and inconsistent anecdotes, should be followed wherever its found to lead.  Sometimes [...]

I greatly admire those scientists who put aside a significant portion of their research time to popularize their fields for a general audience and raise appreciation and understanding of the scientific enterprise.  There are a number of giants from diverse fields who seem to move with ease between the ivory tower and the lecture circuit, [...]