Science and Religion
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God:
The Failed Hypothesis
How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
In my 2003 book Has
Science Found God? I provided a critique of contemporary claims that
science supports the existence of God and found them inadequate.
In this book, I will go much further and argue that science makes a
strong case against the existence a God with the traditional attributes
of the Judaic-Christian-Islamic God. My argument will not be based
simply on the gross absence of evidence for God. Not only is there no
evidence for God, I will argue that the evidence we have can be used to
conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that God does not exist. Not only
does the universe show no evidence for God, it looks exactly as it
would be expected to look if there is no God. In a final chapter I will
show why it is preferable to live in a Godless universe.
Go here for more information and reviews.
Published by Prometheus Books
in 2006:
The
Comprehensible Cosmos
Where Do
The Laws of Physics Come From?
The laws of physics were not handed down from above. Nor are
they somehow built into the logical structure of the universe. They are
human inventions, though not arbitrary ones. They are not restrictions
on the behavior of matter. They are restrictions on the way physicists
may describe that behavior. In order to describe an objective reality,
those descriptions cannot depend on the point of view of observers.
They
must be "point-of-view-invariant." When point-of-view invariance is
implemented,
the laws of physics follow with few additional assumptions. We live in
a comprehensible cosmos.
Go here for more
information and reviews.
Has Science
Found God?
The Latest Results in the
Search
for Purpose in the Universe
Book published
by Prometheus
Books in 2003
Reviews, sample
chapters and
related
work. Go here to read a discription of
book.
Do Our
Values Come from God? The Evidence Says No
Article based on chapter in book
published in Free Inquiry, August/September
2006.
The
Scientific
Case Against a God Who Created the Universe
A chapter in The
Improbability of God, edited by Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006).
The Natural Origin of Our Universe
Explained
By a Mathematical Model Based on Established Physics and Cosmology
A mathematical model of the natural origin
of our universe is presented.
The model is based only on the well-established theories of general
relativity and quantum mechanics. The assertion that science cannot
explain how our universe came about is refuted. Draft. Do not copy,
quote, or distribute.
Natural
UNIVERSE
Story about Has
Science Found God
in Boulder Daily Camera, Oct. 12, 2003, by books editor Clay
Evans.
Large
file (2.5 Mb).
Camera.pdf
The
Absence of God in Physics and Cosmology
Oct. 7 talk at the University of Colorado Theology Forum.
PowerPoint slide
show.
Will Secularism
Survive?
Yes,
If We Can Keep
Science Afloat
Contribution to a
special symposium in Free Inquiry October/November
2005 Vol. 25 No. 6. p. 32.
Flew's
Flawed
Science
Article
in Free Inquiry 25, No. 2,
Feb-March
2004, reacting to media reports that famous philosopher Antony Flew has
converted from
atheism to belief in God. Flew admits "errors" in a letter in the
following issue.
The Cosmic
Blueprint
Review of new edition of book
by Paul Davies in Science
& Theology News June,
2004.
The
Physics of Society
Review of Critical
Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another by Philip Ball (2004). For Science
& Theology News.
The
Premise Keepers
Article published in
Free
Inquiry Vol. 23 No. 3 Summer 2003.
RELIGION
AND HEALTH
Read my
exchange on religious behavior
and health with United Methodist minister Andrew Weaver and
best-selling
author Larry Dossey reprinted from the Templeton Foundation newspaper Research
News & Opportunities in Science and Theology.
1. Forum
2. Reply to Weaver
3. Weaver
4. Dossey
5. Reply to Dossey
Physicist
argues
that, for lack of scientific evidence, God is probably just a concept
By Mark Sauer
SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/science/20020426-9999_mz1c26proof.html
"In July 1998, the cover of Newsweek declared: 'Science Finds God.'"
This article is about my talk in San Diego, April 23, 2002.
Selected
Links on Information Theory,
Intelligent
Design, and other Design Arguments
Critical
Thought and Religious Liberty. Very complete set of links to
books
and articles on both side of the issue.
The
Design
Argument by Elliot Sober.
How Not to
Detect Design by Branden Fitelstein, Christopher Stephens, and
Elliot Sobel.
Information
Theory Primer by Thomas Schneider
A
Mathematical Theory of Communication by Claude Shannon
The Great
Debate: Is There a God? - A Scientist
and
a Philosopher Speak Out
My debate with William Lane Craig, Ph.D., Th.D.
September 10, 2003 at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu,
Hawaii. Attendance approx. 1000.
My opening
statement
Htm file. PowerPoint slide
show
My rebuttal
Htm file. PowerPoint slide
show
My closing statement
Htm file.
If you want to read Dr. Craig's views, visit his
web site.
More information.
You can order tapes from here.
Article
on debate from student newspaper.
The Incompatibility of Science and
Christianity. Notes for talk.
How to Answer Theist
Arguments.
A dialogue between beleiver and nonbeliever.
Read my exchange on religious behavior and health with United
Methodist
minister Andrew Weaver and best-selling author Larry Dossey reprinted
from
the Templeton Foundation newspaper Research News
& Opportunities in Science and Theology.
1. Original Readers' Forum exchange
with
Weaver. Vol 2, No. 5, January 2002.
2. My response to Weaver. Vol.
2., No. 6, Fenruary 2002.
3. Weaver response in same issue.
4. Larry Dossey reaction to be
published in June issue.
5. My response to Dossey.
A
Weak Effort to Reconcile Science and Religion
Review of
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents
Evidence for Belief
By Francis S. Collins
Physics World Vol. 19 No. 10 October 2006, pp. 45-46.
Go here for pdf of review.
Please refer to published version.
Enlightening
the Future
Contribution
to Spiked symposium.
Can
Science Study the Supernatural?
Talk given on April 8, 2006 at the conference "Darwinian
Evolution in the 21st Century," University of Colorado, Boulder, and on
April 26, 2006 at the Dallas Philosophers Forum.
Abstract (html).
Slide show (3.5Mb pdf). Original is Keynote
presentation. Animations not shown.
Do
Our
Values Come from God? The Evidence Says No
Article based on chapter in above book
published in Free Inquiry
26(5)August/September
2006, pp. 42-45.
Abstract of article to appear
in The Philosophers' Index
The
Scientific
Case Against a God Who Created the Universe
A chapter in The
Improbability of God, edited by Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier
(Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006).
Essays and Reviews
Intelligent Design: The
New
Stealth Creationism." PDF file of paper based on talks
given
in Lawrence, Topeka, and Wichita, Kansas, September 22, 25, 26, 2000 at
the invitation of the Kansas
Citizens For Science. Now at Secular
Web.Abstract
in html. OK to distibute, with credit. Note that the material here has
been updated for the book Has Science
Found
God? (See above).
Natural
Explanations
for the Anthropic Coincidences. Paper published in PhiloVolume
3, Number 2 Fall-Winter 2000. Reprints available on request. Do not
distribute
without permission of the author and editors.
The Breath of God: Identifying
Spiritual
Energy. Chapter 32 of Skeptical
Odysseys edited by Paul Kurtz, Amherst N.Y.:
Prometheus
Books (2001). Copyrighted. Do not distribute without permission of the
author and editors.
The God of Falling Bodies.
Article
published in Skeptical
InquirerVol. 25, no. 5, September 2001, special
issue
on science and religion. OK to distribute, with credit. This is based
on
a chapter in Has Science Found God.
Humanity in Time and Space.
Essay published in Free
Inquiry Vol. 21 No. 2 Spring 20001.
The Other
Side
of Time. Short essay on the Kalam cosmological
argument
in which it is shown that the universe need not have had a beginning.
Long article The
Anthropic Coincidences: A Natural Explanation.Published
in Skeptical Intelligencer Vol.
3 Issue No. 3, July 1999. Available from ASKE, the Association
for Skeptical Inquiry.
Shorter article Anthropic
Design:
Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose? Published inSkeptical
Inquirer Vol. 23, No. 4, July/August 1999.
Go here to read
an
interview by Cliff Walker, editor of Positive
Atheism, conducted in Portland, Oregon in November,
1999.
Anthropic Design and the Laws of Physics.
Published in the Reports of the National
Center
on Science Education, Vol. 18, Number 3, May/June 1998,
pp. 812. Link to text not available.
Article Has
Science Found God? Published
in Free Inquiry19(1)
Winter 1998/99, 56-58.
Seeking
Purpose in a Universe of Chance. Review of Belief
in God in the Age of Science by John Polkinghorne.
This review is on the Secular
Web.
Fitting
the Bible to the Data. Review of The
Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdomby
Gerald L. Schroeder. This review is on the Secular
Web and has been published in Skeptical
Inquirer Vol. 23 No. 4 July/August 1999. This version
can
be found here.
The
Functional Equivalent of God. Review of The
Creator and theCosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the
Century
Reveal God by Hugh Ross. This review is on the Secular
Web and has been published in Skeptic
Vol. 6 No. 3 (1998)89-91.
Links to other work can be found on the home
page
and following pages
Other material related to
this subject
can be reached with the following links:
Short Essays 1990-1994
The following essays appared in the Newsletter
of Humanists Hawaii
in the early 1990s. A few were reprinted in other humanist
publications.
I do no thave the exact publication dates and they are not in the order
they originally appeared. They are all copyrighted and should not be
distributed
or quoted without proper credit.
Ingersoll's
Vow
The eloquent vow made by the nineteenth century freethinker Robert
G.
Ingersoll.
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