Skepticism about Paranormal and Supernatural Claims
- “On Harmonizing Religion and Science: A Reply to Bigliardi,” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 3:2 40–43 (2014).
- T. Edis and S. Brentjes, “A Golden Age of Harmony? Misrepresenting Science and History in the 1001 Inventions Exhibit,” Skeptical Inquirer, 36:6 49-53 (2012).
- “Secularization Has Hit Its High Mark” Patheos.com, August 30, 2010.
- “Is the Universe Rational?” Free Inquiry, 30:2 27-29 (2010).
- "An Ambivalent Nonbelief," in Russell Blackford and Udo Schu klenk, eds., 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists (Wiley-Blackford, 2009).
- “Against All Faith: Scientific Naturalism and the New Popular Atheism” Unpublished chapter for a book on the “new atheism.”
- “Universe, Origin of the, and Unbelief,” entry in Tom Flynn, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Amherst: Prometheus, 2007).
- “The Best and Brightest Fanatics,” op-ed distributed internationally by Project Syndicate, August 2007.
- “A False Quest for a True Islam,” Free Inquiry, 27:5 48 (2007).
- “A game of dice: physics, randomness, and naturalism,” for the Jefferson Center.
- “Democracy vs Secularism in the Muslim World,” in Barry F. Seidman and Neil J. Murphy, eds., Toward A New Political Humanism (Amherst: Prometheus, 2004).
- “Exorcizing All The Ghosts,” The Skeptical Inquirer, 28:2 35 (2004).
- “An Accidental Critic,” in Ibn Warraq, ed., Leaving Islam (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).
- “Flipping a Quantum Coin,” Free Inquiry, 23:2 60 (2003).
- “Can Secular Philosophy Give Us Objective Morality?,” The Secular Web, March 2003. [Review of Atheism, Morality, and Meaning by M. Martin.]
- “An Accidental World,” Free Inquiry, 22:4 57 (2002).
- “The Rationality of an Illusion,” The Humanist, 60:4 28 (2000).
- “‘Quran-science’: Scientific miracles from the 7th century?,” accepted by Free Inquiry around 1995 but ended up on their back-burner and forgotten.
- “Fallacies About Fallacies?” (1990s; maybe in The Skeptic).
- “In Praise of Bias” (1990s; maybe in The Skeptic).
- “The Real Scientific Method” (humor; appeared in a collection).
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