Updated 4 May 2024
Summary essay
- The search for harmony: A summary essay: The search for harmony
Evolution, age of the Earth, creationism and intelligent design
- Does creationism pose a challenge for geology and evolution?: Creationism
- Have species been individually designed?: Design
- What does DNA reveal about evolution?: DNA
- Can an evolutionary program generate English text?: English text
- What is the evidence for evolution?: Evolution-evidence
- What do fossils say about evolution?: Fossils
- Does intelligent design pose a challenge for evolution?: Intelligent design
- What do scientists understand about the origin of life?: Origin
- Are there missing links between ancient primates and modern humans?: Prehuman fossils
- Do probability arguments refute evolution?: Probability
- How reliable is radiocarbon dating?: Radiocarbon dating
- How does radiometric dating work?: Radiometric dating
- How reliable is geologic dating?: Reliability
- How many scientists question evolution?: Scientists-evolution
Philosophy, postmodernism and progress
- What does the new atheist literature say about science and religion?: Atheists
- Are there benefits to religious belief and participation?: Benefits
- Is modern society in decline?: Decline
- Have science and religion always been at war?: History
- Is modern science socially constructed and forever tentative?: Postmodern
- How has the idea of progress shaped modern society?: Progress
- Is scientific progress real?: Progress-science
Physics, astronomy, anthropic principle, Fermi’s paradox, multiverse and fine tuning
- What is the anthropic principle of cosmology?: Anthropic principle
- How solid is the evidence for the big bang?: Big bang
- How are distances to the stars and galaxies calculated?: Distance
- Where are the extraterrestrial civilizations? (Fermi’s paradox): Fermi’s paradox
- Is the universe fine-tuned for intelligent life?: Fine-tuned
- What is the inflationary theory of cosmology?: Inflation
- What is the multiverse, and what is its significance?: Multiverse
Theology, biblical scholarship, natural law and Noah’s flood
- Is the Bible supported by modern archaeology?: Bible archaeology
- Can biblical chronology be used to date creation?: Bible chronology
- What was the ancient biblical cosmology?: Bible cosmology
- Is the Bible inerrant?: Bible-inerrant
- Is God a Great Deceiver? The central fallacy of creationist theology: Deceiver
- Is the cruelty in nature consistent with Judeo-Christian theism?: Cruelty
- Does modern science repudiate miracles?: Miracles
- Are natural laws in conflict with Judeo-Christian theism?: Natural law
- Are Noah’s ark and flood literal scientific facts?: Noah’s flood
Bibliography
- Bibliography with all references cited in the above articles: Bibliography
Other articles (the above articles may be more up-to-date):
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2023
2020
- The origin of life in an inflationary universe
- Pseudoscience in the age of Coronavirus
- Why are people embracing astrology in an age of science?
2019
- The scientific debate is over: it is time to act on climate change
- How many habitable exoplanets are there, really?
- Pi, climate change denial and creationism
- Does the punctuated equilibrium theory refute evolution?
- Marcelo Gleiser wins Templeton Prize
- When did life start on Earth?
2018
- New books and articles on the “great silence”
- Does the string theory multiverse really exist?
- Fermi’s paradox and the Copernican principle
- Chromosomes, DNA and human evolution
- Has cosmic fine-tuning been refuted?
- Pinker’s “Enlightenment Now”: Humanism and scientific progress
- Does a sense of purpose improve one’s health?
2017
- The future of artificial intelligence: Utopia or dystopia?
- Fine tuning and Fermi’s paradox
- Can there be harmony between science and religion?
- Does a secular worldview lead to greater rejection of pseudoscience?
- Are Hollywood stars qualified to comment on science?
- Carlos Rovelli’s “Reality Is Not What It Seems”
- Exoplanets, 4 billion-year-old life, Fermi’s paradox and zero-one laws
2016
- Christmas 2016: Benefits of a charitable life
- Shawn Otto’s “The War on Science”
- Why science needs the humanities
- Bacteria adapt to antibiotics before your eyes.
- How fast can evolution operate?
- Are the “hobbits” a separate prehuman species?
- The rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria: Evolution before our eyes
- Would modern science have developed without the monotheistic tradition?
- Is religion a pernicious delusion in world history?
- How likely is it that scientists are engaged in a conspiracy?
2015
- Life existed on earth 4.1 billion years ago
- New prehuman species “Homo naledi” found in South Africa
- Is science based on secular humanism?
- Young-earth creationism and the forest fallacy
- How certain are scientists that the earth is many millions of years old?
- Desperately seeking ET: Fermi’s paradox turns 65 (Part II)
- New developments in the origin of life
- Where is ET? Fermi’s paradox turns 65
- Does public opinion always agree with scientific fact?
2014
- Do religious colleges teach old-earth geology and evolution?
- Prehuman fossils: an embarrassment of riches
- Creationists: modern-day Don Quixotes?
- Is intelligent design a legitimate scientific movement?
- Review of Amir Aczel’s “Why Science Does Not Disprove God”
- Gravitational waves confirm mathematical prediction of inflationary big bang
- What do scientists think of religion?
- Why mathematics is beautiful and why it matters
2013
- Twenty questions about science and religion
- Science vs. Religion: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
- Towards a theology of evolution
- Please mess with Texas: Texas textbook fiasco threatens US science
- Troubles beset Kentucky’s Creation Museum
- Did dinosaurs live with humans? Were dragons real?
- What are the ultimate constituents of the universe?
- Is the universe one or many?
- Are there benefits to religious belief and participation?
- Criminology, sports drug testing and evolution
- The last Japanese WWII holdout: A lesson for creationists
- Did God create the world through evolution?
- Who are more stubborn? Fundamentalists or atheists?
- Academic plagiarism and evolution
2012
- Is nature entirely “red in tooth and claw”?
- Alarm bells sound over latest international test scores
- Is believing in climate change “an insult to God”?
- Life on Mars!? Maybe we are all Martians
- Study released on Dutch researcher’s “culture of fraud”
- Do creationism and intelligent design qualify as peer-reviewed science?
- What on earth do they think? Politicians on the age of the planet
- New book on evolution: “Evolving: The Human Effect and Why It Matters”
- Antiscience beliefs and U.S. politics
- What is science?
- Algebra is essential in a 21st century economy
- Does science have all the answers?
- Creationism, technology and intellectual consistency
- How old is the earth? Calculate it yourself
- Does modern science undermine morality?
- Are there analogues of evolution in other fields?
- Is there a “royal road” to science and religion?
2011
- How can we study geology and evolution without a time machine?
- The remarkable decline of violence
- Creationism and religious activity of youth
- Mathematics and scientific fraud
- Why all the fighting?
- Can computers think?.
- Can (or should) God be found in the gaps of scientific knowledge?
- Is the Bible a scientific textbook?
2010
- Siberian fossils were Neanderthals’ cousins, interbred with humans
- How do other scholars view Dawkins’ The God Delusion?
- Creationism and politics don’t mix
- Hawking and Mlodinow take on philosophy and God
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
- Scientists discover 2.1 billion-year-old pre-Cambrian fossils
- Scientists announce creation of synthetic bacteria
- Is That Your Final Answer? Creationism and Atheism Confront the End of Life
- Creationism, Global Warming Denial and Scientific Integrity
- SF Bay Area Hiker Threatens the Foundations of Modern Science
- What have I learned?