Author: James Alcock
James Alcock is professor of psychology at Glendon College, York University, in Toronto and a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
What Is So Strange about Believing as the Mormons Do?
Preserved in a bottle in the magnificent Basilica of St. Anthony in Padua, Italy, are the tongue and larynx of that eponymous saint. Visitors are informed that when Anthony’s remains were exhumed for transfer to the newly completed basilica in 1263, thirty-two years after his death, these organs had survived intact in miraculous testament to …