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Socrates 469-399 BC

God's Truth or Pious Lies? Science or Religion?

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Straight-line and simple ground plans can be communicated very well. They are easily remembered and are extremely influential. But they have their victims. The first and main victim, of course, is the truth. The simple approach fails to represent the complexity of events as they were.
John Bowden

Science and Religion

The Language of God 1 F S Collins 49 kb
The Language of God 2 50 kb
The Language of God 3 55 kb
Death of God and Secular Christianity 37 kb
The Templeton Essays 66 kb
The Failed Hypothesis of God 29 kb
Science is mightier than the Word 13 kb
The Conflict of Science with Religion 85 kb
What is Truth? 60 kb
Peter Stanford on Science and Christianity 14 kb
C A Coulson: Science and Christian Belief 64 kb
Science and Pseudoscience 54 kb
Science Lectures from the Pulpit 60 kb
Science for the Perplexed Christian 56 kb
Science and Religion I 30 kb
Science and Religion II 27 kb
Science and Religion III 48 kb
Criticizing Science 58 kb
Science in the Bible? 44 kb
God, Gould and NOMA 48 kb
John Polkinghorne: Scientist as Theologian 77 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons I 32 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons II 53 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons III 36 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons IV 32 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons V 43 kb
Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons VI 39 kb

Christianity

America, Christianity and Violence 25 kb
In God we Doubt 45 kb
Questionnaire: Are You a Fundamentalist? 3 kb
Why I am Unconvinced there is a God Ken Harding 7 kb
The Jesus Family Tomb 37 kb
The God Delusion 111 kb
Thinking about the Resurrection 88 kb
The Trouble with Theology 121 kb
Salvation by Faith Alone? 58 kb
Rational Christianity? 59 kb
The News from the East. Rome 20s AD 26 kb
A Portrait of God Infinite kb
Fundamentalism 26 kb
Who is Right? Jesus or Christians I 63 kb
Who is Right? Jesus or Christians II 94 kb
Why Believe in God? 37 kb
The Practical Meaning of Christianity 23 kb
Christianity in Practice 28 kb
Bad Habits 30 kb
The Law of Death 33 kb
Christian Morality 66 kb
Jesus in Fairyland 14 kb
Justifications for Christianity 61 kb
Mystical Experiences 44 kb
Christianity in short sentences 13 kb
Christianity Examined 44 kb
Some Faults of the Christian Religion 19 kb
What Fundamentalists Know about God’s Brain 17 kb
After God, Don Cupitt and Science 96 kb
Significant Soundbites Sampler
Significant Soundbites 2 67 kb
Significant Soundbites 1 60 kb
Tough Questions for the Christian Church by James Buckner 45 kb

Islam

The Higher Criticism of Islam 40 kb
Religious Intolerance or Liberal Tolerance 32 kb

Polemics

Truth in Religion 29 kb
Philosophy in an Evolutionary Light 76 kb
Morality and Metaphor 58 kb
Christian Liars I 41 kb
Christian Liars II 40 kb
Yet More Christian Lies 8 kb
The Art of Being Skeptical 32 kb
Tsunamis in God’s Perfect Design 19 kb
The Art of Apologetics 44 kb
The Delusion of the Personal God 22 kb
Christianity in Court 31 kb
Polemical Trickery and Propagation by Rogues 21 kb
Runaway World by Michael Green 99 kb
The Resurrection of Christ 34 kb
Prophecies of the Messiah 21 kb

Exodus

Evolution

Plantinga—The modern Aquinas speaks 31 kb
Petition—A Scientific Support For Darwinism 3 kb
The Purpose of Intelligent Design I 62 kb
The Purpose of Intelligent Design II 62 kb
The Compelling Evidence for Creationism and Intelligent Design 1 kb
Evolution for Fundamentalists I 52 kb
Evolution for Fundamentalists II 65 kb
Evolution for Fundamentalists III 69 kb
Teaching Evolution 25 kb
The Cosmological Argument and Big Bang 89 kb
Evolution for Perplexed Christians 29 kb
The Scopes Trial 11 kb
Evolution: Jewish Apologetic 50 kb
Evolution and Richard Milton 26 kb

Psychology of Religion

Religion in Psychology 15 kb
A Christian in Psychology 19 kb
The Psychology of Christianity I 59 kb
The Psychology of Christianity II 75 kb
The Psychology of Christianity III 81 kb
The Social Psychology of Christianity I 58 kb
Christianity and Mental Illness 57 kb
The Meaning of Spirituality 19 kb
National attitudes to religion: National Affinities 8 kb
How I was Saved by Francis Fisher 9 kb
A departing Christian on Christian Psychology 32 kb
The Psychology of Christian High School Kids 24 kb

People

Blair preaches in England's Top Catholic Cathedral 11 kb
Dinesh D’Souza, His Critics and Admirers 59 kb
The Christian Coprolalia of Arnold Neumaier 24 kb
The Effortless Inferiority of Howard Jacobson 22 kb
John Gray tries to think 42 kb
John Hick proves God 25 kb
Mary Midgley on Scientists 22 kb
Hershel Shanks: Who are the Nazi Scholars? 85 kb
Jimmy Swaggart 6 kb
Carl McIntire 7 kb
Edwin Yamauchi and the Heart of Evangelism 26 kb
Richard Dawkins 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture 24 kb
Styles of Religious Belief, Richard Dawkins 12 kb
Tipler on God and Hume 6 kb

Pseudo-Science

Miscellaneous

The Dogma of the Flies 4 kb
Western History Textbooks 40 kb

Old Polemics

Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin 11 kb
The Three Imposters I 44 kb
The Three Imposters II 53 kb
The Three Imposters III 48 kb

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