The other day I happened to watch a video of the Young Earth creationist Ken Hovind asserting that there is no known way the universe can generate uranium. Of course, he rushes through a litany... Read More

A recent report from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that this country saw a record number of cases of sexually transmitted disease (STDs) in 2016: more than two million new cases of gonorrhea,... Read More

Last week climate scientist Peter Gleick reported that the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Science Explorer—a taxpayer-funded online database for the public to browse USGS science programs and activities—had lost 5,516 formerly searchable climate science... Read More

A quarter century ago, renowned humanists such as Albert Ellis, Michael Werner, Joe Gerstein (pictured here) and many others played an integral role in the founding of SMART Recovery—a secular, science-based, self-empowering mutual support program... Read More

A creationist just sued the US Department of the Interior and won. Andrew Snelling, is a geologist (awarded a PhD by the University of Sydney in 1982) and the director of research at Ken Ham’s... Read More

“Your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more,” President Trump recently told the mayor of Virginia’s Tangier Island in response to reports that... Read More

In his 2009 book, The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, biologist Richard Dawkins highlights a conceptual difference between the way anthropologists and biologists interpret the evidence of human evolution. Anthropologists, as Dawkins... Read More