Author: Mike Keas

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 13, 2023

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
History of Science
Mathematics
Tagged
, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Bede, Christianity, conflict myth, Euclid, experiments, flat earth, Galileo Galilei, history, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Literal Commentary on Genesis, medicine, medieval Church, Medieval science, Middle Ages, Myth of the Dark Ages, Oxford University, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Roman Catholic, Saint Augustine, science and religion, The Nature of Things, University of Bologna, Walter Laird, Warfare Thesis}

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity

_{Mike Keas
April 13, 2023

Astronomy, Faith & Science, History of Science, Mathematics

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The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
May 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, DNA, evolution, evolutionary theory, Last Universal Common Ancestor, Latin America, LUCA, molecular sequences, molecular studies, Research, RNA, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, Tree of Life}

Troubles with the Tree of Life

_{Mike Keas and Paul Nelson
May 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Philosophy of Science

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Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
October 12, 2021

Categories
Astronomy
Faith & Science
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, atheism, Bill Nye, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, earth, Humanist of the Year, intelligent design, Judeo-Christian tradition, life, Psalms, scientism, universe}

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion

_{Mike Keas
October 12, 2021

Astronomy, Faith & Science, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Self-appointed spokesmen for science often use the enormous size of the cosmos, with its billions of galaxies, as a club to beat up Christianity. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 27, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Druyan, Bible, Big Bang, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, COVID-19, Deep Ecology, Earth Day, Easter, Encyclopedia Galactica, eschatology, Evolution News, Fox Broadcasting Company, Genesis, interstellar travel, jesus, Johannes Kepler, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, teleology, Tree of Life, Unbelievable}

Echoing the Bible, Cosmos Concludes with a Materialist Origins Myth and Future Heavenly Bliss

_{Mike Keas
April 27, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Tyson ends his summary of cosmic history with a soaring narrative focused on earth. It sounds like the exalted prose of the book of Genesis. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
April 3, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, ancient Greeks, Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Copernican demotion, Cosmos 3.0, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, earth, humankind, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Nicolaus Copernicus, Roman Catholic, Unbelievable}

Neil deGrasse Tyson and Cosmos Peddle the Myth that Copernicus Demoted Earth

_{Mike Keas
April 3, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Tyson insists the Copernican demotion story is redemptive because it saves us from religious ignorance. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 25, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, alien enlightenment, Andrew Cuomo, Carl Sagan, Christianity, Cosmos 3.0, COVID-19, demons, disease, Egypt, Evolution News, Fox Broadcasting Company, Galen, Hippocrates, hospitals, Judaism, leprosy, materialism, medicine, Mesopotamia, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, National Geographic Channel, Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York State, Old Testament, physicians, salvation, social distancing, Unbelievable}

Medicine, Religion, and Cosmos — Was Andrew Cuomo Wrong to Invoke God?

_{Mike Keas
March 25, 2020

Medicine

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In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
March 20, 2020

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Albert Einstein, aliens, ancient Greeks, Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, Bible, Christiaan Huygens, Christianity, Cosmos: Possible Worlds, Evolution News, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Giordano Bruno, Herwart von Hohenburg, Johannes Kepler, Judaism, National Geographic Channel, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, planetary motion, Plato, René Descartes, Saint Augustine, Two Books, Unbelievable}

The Biggest Myth So Far in Cosmos 3.0 — Baruch Spinoza as Science Hero

_{Mike Keas
March 20, 2020

Physical Sciences

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Scholarship on Spinoza in the last decade has increasingly recognized that he opposed the observational (empirical) and mathematical analyses of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
December 19, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, astrobiology, biosignatures, Buddhism, Cambrian Explosion, Christianity, Darwin-skeptics, dinosaurs, entomology, extraterrestrial life, Hinduism, insects, intelligent design, Judaism, Mars, NASA, New Testament, pareidolia, religion, Space.com, St. Louis, Unbelievable}

Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?

_{Mike Keas
December 19, 2019

Physical Sciences

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I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims. Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
January 22, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __k-review, Age of Illumination, Age of Reason, Alhazen, Arabic, atheism, Bede, cathedrals, Euclid, eyeglasses, Galileo Galilei, Greek, Ibn al-Haytham, Jerry Coyne, Johannes Kepler, Latin, Literal Commentary on Genesis, Myth of the Dark Ages, Ptolemy, Roger Bacon, Rome, Saint Augustine, scientific revolution, The Nature of Things, Unbelievable, universities, University of Bologna, Walter Laird}

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
January 22, 2019

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Scientific Reasoning

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Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD? Read More ›

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Author
Mike Keas

Date
January 11, 2019

Categories
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, __k-review, aliens, American Humanist Association, atheism, Bill Nye, Blaise Pascal, C.S. Lewis, Christianity, cosmos, heavens, Humanist of the Year, humanity, Judeo-Christian tradition, Nicolaus Copernicus, planets, Psalms, religion, scientism, Unbelievable, universe}

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

_{Mike Keas
January 11, 2019

Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so. Read More ›