Waisake Naholo's miracle healing
16 August 2015
Waisake Naholo's miracle healing
Articles tagged with "miracle"
Skepticism and Miracles
1 August 2013
What is a miracle? In the vernacular we speak of "miraculous" escapes and the like, to characterise events which are extremely unlikely - at odds with the normal course of experience. A miracle in this weak sense just means a very improbable event.
Skeptics' Videotape Library Catalogue
1 February 1999
For some years the Skeptics have had a collection of videotapes available for members to borrow. These are on topics thought to be of interest to skeptics, including firewalking, spontaneous human combustion (unrelated to firewalking!), homeopathy, UFOs, alien abduction, etc. and have been sourced mainly from material broadcast in New Zealand.
Politically Expedient Miracles
1 August 1998
Jim Ring takes a look at canonisation and finds the lives of the saints less than miraculous.
American Faith Healers
1 November 1987
No two American faith healers are exactly alike since they are competing in a crowded market place, but they do have enough features in common to make a general survey possible. This account of how 'big name' healers work is put together from reports by skeptics who have attended their meetings.