First, I'd like to recommend the wonderful website The Skeptic's Dictionary, by Robert T. Carroll. It's chock-full of great information to help you lead a wonderfully fulfilling life without woo-hoo, hoo-haw, flim-flam, and pshaw. "Pshaw" -- can you believe this word actually dates from the late 1600s?! Hoooo doggie.
Anyway, today's entry from The Skeptic's Dictionary is What's The Harm?. It's an interesting page on the site that talks about how belief in the supernatural and paranormal can have disastrous consequences. People all the time will ask me, "What's the harm in believing in God?" We all have heard about the gross injustices done in the name of religion, not to mention the flummoxing done by psychics and the like. Anyway, check it out if you've ever thought thus titularly.
Next week -- how to get your ivory scrimshaw their whitest.
Anyway, today's entry from The Skeptic's Dictionary is What's The Harm?. It's an interesting page on the site that talks about how belief in the supernatural and paranormal can have disastrous consequences. People all the time will ask me, "What's the harm in believing in God?" We all have heard about the gross injustices done in the name of religion, not to mention the flummoxing done by psychics and the like. Anyway, check it out if you've ever thought thus titularly.
Next week -- how to get your ivory scrimshaw their whitest.
