What is science? -- Laws, explanations, theories, hypotheses -- Prediction, testing, corroboration, falsification -- The complex/historical sciences -- The new philosophy of science -- Determinism, randomness, chaos, and quantum mechanics -- Pseudoscience : I. Case studies -- Pseudoscience : II. The phenomenon examined -- The major classes of knowledge -- The nature and place of logic and mathematics -- The supernatural realm : religion and the God concept -- The places of ethics, ideologies, and aesthetics -- How science impacts ethics and religion -- Creationism--is it religion or pseudoscience? -- Epilogue : the skeptical scientist.