We start our journey here where Bill Vallicella, aka Maverick Philosopher , characterizes seven possible responses to Leibniz 's questi...

A year and a half ago I wrote a post excoriating those who think that Columbus was trying to prove the Earth is round, and speculated that ...

The only text from classical antiquity quoted by H. Blumenberg in Die Genesis der kopemikanischen Welt in which the central position of the...

H ere is a paper from arxiv by Dr Luke Barnes of the Institute for Astronomy in Zurich entitled 'The fine-tuning of the universe for int...

J ust when you think the ‘Jesus Myth’ controversy couldn't get any more surreal, out pops a paper from Stephen Law, a philosopher a...

T hose among us who remember the old Richard Dawkins forum will recall the ‘ What can we possibly infer about the historical Jesus? ’ thre...

When authors send their books out into the world, we leave them to fend for themselves. True, there will hopefully be some reviews. But th...

Lawrence Krauss has recently published A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing wherein he seeks to explain the...

then open your mouth in front of a scholar with the cameras rolling and remove all doubt. Update (17 March): The full video can be seen her...

Most forms of global skepticism, skepticism about everything, are only hypothetical or methodological. We are not asked to actually withhold...