Science & Religion
epub |eng | 2011-10-21 | Author:Holmes Rolston, III

Evolutionary Headings: Surprising or Inevitable? Is evolution going anywhere? If so, are these origins and headings surprising or inevitable? Reflecting on the second big bang, we must return to the ...
( Category: Science & Religion November 24,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-15 | Author:David Sloan Wilson [Wilson, David Sloan]

Without attempting to prejudge the results, I think that the basic functionality of religion will be amply confirmed. Durkheim was right. Something as elaborate—as time-, energy-, and thought-consuming—as religion would ...
( Category: Sociology November 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-17 | Author:Graziano, Michael S. A. [Graziano, Michael S. A.]

Consciousness is a process, not a thing Where does this discussion leave us? We have gained a great deal of ground on consciousness. We have hemmed it into certain brain ...
( Category: Spiritualism November 6,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-07-07 | Author:Richard P. Feynman

INDEX Abject honesty, 106 Action making choices, 44–45 results of, 45 Adventure, scientific spirit of, 47 Advertising as perpetually insulting, 87 in television, 85 Age heroic, 62–63 unscientific, 59–122 Alternative ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 31,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

Chapter 6 THE FAILURES OF REVELATION If the statements it [the Bible] contains concerning matters of history and science can be proven by extrabiblical records, by ancient documents recovered through ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-28 | Author:Thomas Dixon

13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Victor J. Stenger [Stenger, Victor J.]

ARE CARBON AND ORGANIC MOLECULES FINE-TUNED? Let us next take a more detailed look at coincidence 5, which asserts that fine-tuning is needed to produce carbon, the primary building block ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:Guy Consolmagno, SJ,Paul Mueller, SJ [Consolmagno, Guy]

GALILEAN ENTANGLEMENT PAUL: There’s something fundamental about the Galileo story, however, that I’d like to develop more. The Galileo Affair shows what can go wrong when philosophy, politics, and personalities ...
( Category: Science & Religion October 27,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-04-24 | Author:Victor J. Stenger

The point Dawkins was making is that if Dembski,33 Behe,34 and their supporters in the intelligent design movement are correct that complexity can only arise from higher complexity, then God ...
( Category: Sociology October 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-28 | Author:Wade, Nicholas

The Rise of Christianity Judaism, both before and for some time after the Babylonian exile, was not just a religion but a system of belief constructed around a specific political ...
( Category: General October 16,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2007-03-28 | Author:Dennett, Daniel C. [Dennett, Daniel C.]

I heard this tale from several people who claimed to know, and I also heard it denied by a few Druze, of course. But if it was true, this would ...
( Category: Religious September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:deGrasse Tyson, Neil [Neil, deGrasse Tyson,]

AT THE RISK of oversimplifying the life cycle of a high-mass star, it is sufficient to recognize that a star is in the business of making and releasing energy, which ...
( Category: Science & Religion September 22,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-17 | Author:Ian G. Barbour

DIALOGUE Dialogue goes beyond the Independence thesis in exploring conceptual parallels between evolutionary theory and theological doctrines. We will examine three scientific concepts for which theological analogues have been proposed: ...
( Category: Astronomy September 18,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Alexander, Amir [Alexander, Amir]

TWO DREAMS OF MODERNITY By the 1670s the war over the infinitely small had ended. With Angeli at long last silenced, and all the Jesuits’ rivals driven underground or melting ...
( Category: History September 16,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-16 | Author:Plantinga, Alvin [Plantinga, Alvin]

Ideally, we should like m (the measure) to have the following properties: that m is defined for every set of real numbers, that the measure of an interval is its ...
( Category: Religious August 23,2014 )