NZ Skeptics Articles

Articles tagged with "sense"

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.

The natural origins of morality

1 May 2011

The Moral Landscape: How Science can Determine Human Values. Sam Harris. 2010. Free Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-4391-7121-9 Reviewed by Martin Wallace.