A large fraction of the writings of creationists and intelligent design proponents can be summarized as a search for phenomena that appear to be outside the realm of what is known or possible in science. The hope is that such features of nature can then be cited as “proof” of God’s handiwork. See, for example, . . . → Read More: Can (or should) God be found in the gaps of scientific knowledge?
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Introduction For the majority of Judeo-Christian readers of the Bible, modern science poses no fundamental challenge to religion in general or the Bible in particular. Such readers are able to view the Bible as the inspired word of God and yet retain sufficient flexibility to accommodate modern science. At the least, they are willing to . . . → Read More: Is the Bible a scientific textbook? A central tenet of creationism is that the earth (and, in fact, the entire universe) was created over a very short period of time (either six literal days or at most 6000 years), and that this creation was completed about 4000 BCE (see Creationism). Needless to say, this worldview is in utter disagreement with the . . . → Read More: Is God a Great Deceiver? Implications of creationist geology and astronomy Material on this site does not necessarily reflect views of the editor’s employer, funding agencies, religious affiliation or any other organization. Also, inclusion of material (articles, quotations, excerpts) on this website does not necessarily indicate that the editor endorses that material. Where pages or articles have authors indicated, those authors are themselves responsible for the . . . → Read More: Disclaimer and copyright notice Creationists and other critics of evolution have long derided the notion that humans “descended from monkeys.” Of course, this isn’t what scientists claim — scientists only assert that human and monkeys (and other modern-day primates) descended from some common ancestors through a chain of intermediate species. But even when conceding this point, creationists still insist . . . → Read More: Siberian fossils were Neanderthals’ cousins, interbred with humans Introduction In his recent book The God Delusion, noted biologist Richard Dawkins attacks a wide range of religious beliefs as “delusions,” and further claims that religion is responsible for many historical conflicts and modern-day social ills [Dawkins2006]. Dawkins asks us to imagine “a world with no religion … no suicide bombers, no 9/11 no 7/7, . . . → Read More: How do other scholars view Dawkins’ The God Delusion? Creationists and “intelligent design” writers often claim that scientists cannot explain the origin of life, and further that this deficiency constitutes a major deficiency, indeed a fatal flaw, in modern evolutionary theory. Countering such claims are numerous discoveries in the origin of life arena, many of them just in the past few years. For a . . . → Read More: Bacteria thrive on arsenic instead of phosphorus It is often said that quite a few scientists, even some with Ph.D. degrees and significant credentials in the field, believe there are serious difficulties with modern evolutionary theory. Along this line, in 2001 the Discovery Institute, the principal sponsoring organization for the intelligent design movement, began to form a list of scientists who question . . . → Read More: Don’t many scientists question evolution? Recently there have been several reports of political candidates and officials expressing views on creationism, and of creationism being mixed with other political issues: Gabi Avital, chief scientist of Israel’s Education Ministry, was fired in October 2010 after reiterating his position that evolution is “just a theory” and should be taught alongside creationism: “[T]he conditions . . . → Read More: Creationism and politics don’t mix Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, in their 2010 book The Grand Design [Hawking2010], present a highly readable and even somewhat entertaining summary of recent research trying to uncover the long-sought “theory of everything,” together with efforts to understand the implications of these theories on modern cosmology (i.e., the study of the origin and evolution of . . . → Read More: Hawking and Mlodinow take on philosophy and God |
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