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Mob Quad, Merton College
Photo: Mob Quad, Merton College, one of Oxford University's oldest structures, by DWR, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Rumors of War and Evidence of Peace Between Science and Christianity 

The institution in which most scholars investigated natural motion is also noteworthy — the university. This invention began with the University of Bologna. Read More ›
forest for the trees
Nathan Lents
Photo credit: Matt B., via Flickr (cropped).

Troubles with the Tree of Life

Sixty years ago, philosopher of science Thomas Kuhn listed what he described as the “symptoms” of a research field undergoing destabilizing change. Read More ›
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
spiral galaxy NGC 5037
Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario; Acknowledgment: L. Shatz.

The Big Myth: Big Universe Is a Problem for Religion  

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 ›
Neil-deGrasse-Tyson
Image: Host Neil deGrasse Tyson in a screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

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

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 ›
Cosmos 2
Image: A screenshot from the trailer for Cosmos 3.0, “Possible Worlds.”

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

Tyson insists the Copernican demotion story is redemptive because it saves us from religious ignorance. Read More ›
Galen-and-Hippocrates
Image credit: Galen and Hippocrates, two ancient physicians, depicted in a fresco from Anagni Cathedral in Italy, by Nina Aldin Thune via Wikimedia Commons. 

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

In a press conference yesterday about the coronavirus, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo used notably religious language. Read More ›
Spinoza
Image: Baruch Spinoza, about 1665, by an unknown artist / Public domain via Wikimedia.

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

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

Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?

I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims. Read More ›
University of Bologna
atheist
Photo: University of Bologna, the world’s oldest university, by Biopresto [CC BY-SA 3.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

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 ›
Earth and space
Christianity
Photo: The edge of the Earth as seen from the International Space Station, via NASA.

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

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 ›

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