Science Meets Religion

With movements such as young-earth creationism, we certainly have seen examples of religion being shanghaied into the service of anti-science. But some recent rhetoric in opposition to environmentalism and climate change science takes the cake.

For example, E. Calvin Beisner, leader of the Cornwall Alliance (a consortium of evangelical clergy) has declared that environmental movement . . . → Read More: Is believing in climate change “an insult to God”?

Introduction

Creationist and intelligent design writers insist that their writings constitute full-fledged scientific research. Creationists, for instance, hold that their notion that the earth and its living things (or even the entire universe) were created out of nothing a few thousand years ago is a scientific theory, every bit as much as evolution is a . . . → Read More: Do creationism and intelligent design qualify as peer-reviewed science?

Introduction

Some creationist and intelligent design writers claim that scientists have conspired to keep from the public eye some important evidence undermining evolution (or other theories in the science-religion arena). Others have asserted that scientists have been “brainwashed” by some sort of “group-think.”

As a single example, the 2008 movie “Expelled” claimed that creationist . . . → Read More: Is there a conspiracy among scientists?

Many of us were disappointed not to see any serious mention of scientific issues in the recent U.S. presidential debates. Global warming, for example, was never discussed at all, even in the last debate on foreign policy, where it would have naturally fit.

After all, even the U.S. military has now recognized the reality of . . . → Read More: Antiscience beliefs and U.S. politics

Introduction

The Bible is accepted as the word of God — an inspired chronicle of mankind’s search for existence, meaning and moral guidance — by virtually all Christian denominations and also Judaism, whose “Bible” is the Old Testament. Even many highly secular, non-God-believing scholars have expressed great respect for the Bible. The Book of Job’s . . . → Read More: Is the Bible inerrant?