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Photo: Ganymede casts a shadow on Jupiter, by NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS; Image processing: Thomas Thomopoulos © CC BY.

Is the Cosmos One Big Happy Accident?

Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards discusses distortions and outright falsehoods presented by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Read More ›
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Photo: Monument to Giordano Bruno, Rome, by Francesca Soria [CC BY-SA 4.0], from Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Keas Debunks Science-Faith Warfare Myth

“Scientists do love a good story,” says Keas. “Turns out there are plenty of stories we shouldn’t believe.” Read More ›
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Clever Move — Cosmos Pushes Pantheism

Easier for slipping it into the public schools! It won't alarm the parents nearly as much as an all-out siege on theism. Very clever, Dr. Tyson. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Galileo Myth Goes Marching On

He lived out his life at his comfortable rural estate, Villa Il Gioiello, on the hillside outskirts of Florence. Read More ›
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Science Historian Michael Keas: Let’s Not Compound the Tragedy of Giordano Bruno

The medieval idea of burning people because of their religious beliefs is horrific, but it only adds to the tragedy to say Bruno’s death illustrates the warfare between faith and science. Read More ›

Giordano Bruno: A Martyr, Yes, but Not for Science

Bruno was not executed for his view that we live in a vast universe with vast numbers of planets. Read More ›
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Science and Storytelling

To advance the false conception that science is always in conflict with religious tradition, some influential scientists and science popularizers tell us stories about the past and the present. Read More ›
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In Unbelievable, Mike Keas Highlights Myths and Realities of Anti-Science Persecution

The point of Dr. Keas’s book is historical but also very timely: Scientists who challenge materialism today face discrimination as heretics that squelches their research and teaching. Read More ›
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Pre-order Unbelievable Now at a 50 Percent Discount! See Michael Keas in Colorado This Week

Behind all the myths skewered in Dr. Keas’s book lies the idea of religion cast falsely as a retarding force on science. Read More ›

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