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

AskWhy! Publications

© Dr M D Magee
Contents Updated: Sunday, 16 August 2009

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

1. Truth Abstracts of all the pages here
2. Karl Kautsky on the Materialist Ethic of Darwinism 30 kb 
3. Religion: a Spandrel of Human Sociality 81 kb 
4. Jonathan Haidt: The Happiness Hypothesis  a Critique 52 kb 
5. Jonathan Haidt and the New Atheists  Moral Psychology and the Misunderstanding of Religion 77 kb 
6. Sociality and Common Identity  in the Evolution of Religion 53 kb 
7. Secular Christianity:  the Way for Christians and a Religion for Darwinians 13 kb 
8. The Personal God:  How Morality, Intentionality and Religion Evolved 43 kb 
9. Evolutionary Morality Society and the Golden Rule 55 kb 
10. Sharers and Selfish Two kinds of humans? 43 kb 
11. The God Delusion and the Evolution of Morality Did morals evolve? 43 kb 
12. Evolution for Political Conservatives Larry Arnhart 27 kb 
13. Evolution and Animal Morality Are animals moral? 34 kb 
14. The Language of God 1 F S Collins 49 kb 
15. The Language of God 2 50 kb 
16. The Language of God 3 55 kb 
17. Death of God and Secular Christianity 37 kb 
18. The Templeton Essays 66 kb 
19. The Failed Hypothesis of God 29 kb 
20. Science is mightier than the Word 13 kb 
21. Spirituality 6 kb 
22. The Conflict of Science with Religion 85 kb 
23. What is Truth? 60 kb 
24. Peter Stanford on Science and Christianity 14 kb 
25. C A Coulson: Science and Christian Belief 64 kb 
26. Science and Pseudoscience 54 kb 
27. Science Lectures from the Pulpit 60 kb 
28. Science for the Perplexed Christian 56 kb 
29. Science and Religion I 30 kb 
30. Science and Religion II 27 kb 
31. Science and Religion III 48 kb 
32. Criticizing Science 58 kb 
33. Science in the Bible? 44 kb 
34. God, Gould and NOMA 48 kb 
35. John Polkinghorne: Scientist as Theologian 77 kb 
36. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons I 32 kb 
37. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons II 53 kb 
38. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons III 36 kb 
39. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons IV 32 kb 
40. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons V 43 kb 
41. Michael Fuller: Atoms and Icons VI 39 kb 


Christianity

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

Islam

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

Society and Polemics

77. John Stuart (J S) Mill on Liberty: Epitome and Commentary 26 kb 
78. Morality and Moral Natural History 26 kb 
79. Ted Honderich  Terrorism and the Principle of Humanity 60 kb 
80. John Rawls  a Theory of Justice as Fairness 53 kb 
81. What about Humans? Revenge or Justice? 20 kb 
82. Truth in Religion 29 kb 
83. Philosophy in an Evolutionary Light 76 kb 
84. Morality and Metaphor 58 kb 
85. Christian Liars I 41 kb 
86. Christian Liars II 40 kb 
87. Yet More Christian Lies 8 kb 
88. The Art of Being Skeptical 32 kb 
89. Tsunamis in God’s Perfect Design 19 kb 
90. The Art of Apologetics 44 kb 
91. The Delusion of the Personal God 22 kb 
92. Christianity in Court 31 kb 
93. Polemical Trickery and Propagation by Rogues 21 kb 
94. Runaway World by Michael Green 99 kb 
95. The Resurrection of Christ 34 kb 
96. Prophecies of the Messiah 21 kb 

Exodus

97. Exodus: IBSS Apologetic  43 kb 
98. Exodus: Christian Apologetic  65 kb 
99. Dennis Prager on the Exodus 14 kb 
100. Exodus: Jewish Apologetic 48 kb 

Evolution

101. Plantinga—The modern Aquinas speaks 31 kb 
102. Petition—A Scientific Support For Darwinism 3 kb 
103. The Purpose of Intelligent Design I 62 kb 
104. The Purpose of Intelligent Design II 62 kb 
105. The Compelling Evidence for Creationism and Intelligent Design 1 kb 
106. Evolution for Fundamentalists I 52 kb 
107. Evolution for Fundamentalists II 65 kb 
108. Evolution for Fundamentalists III 69 kb 
109. Teaching Evolution 25 kb 
110. The Cosmological Argument and Big Bang 89 kb 
111. Evolution for Perplexed Christians 29 kb 
112. The Scopes Trial 11 kb 
113. Evolution: Jewish Apologetic  50 kb 
114. Evolution and Richard Milton 26 kb 

Psychology of Religion

115. Religion in Psychology 15 kb 
116. A Christian in Psychology 19 kb 
117. The Psychology of Christianity I 59 kb 
118. The Psychology of Christianity II 75 kb 
119. The Psychology of Christianity III 81 kb 
120. The Social Psychology of Christianity I 58 kb 
121. Christianity and Mental Illness 57 kb 
122. The Meaning of Spirituality 19 kb 
123. National attitudes to religion: National Affinities 8 kb 
124. How I was Saved by Francis Fisher 9 kb 
125. A departing Christian on Christian Psychology 32 kb 
126. The Psychology of Christian High School Kids 24 kb 

People

127. Blair preaches in England's Top Catholic Cathedral 11 kb 
128. Dinesh D’Souza, His Critics and Admirers 59 kb 
129. The Christian Coprolalia of Arnold Neumaier 24 kb 
130. The Effortless Inferiority of Howard Jacobson 22 kb 
131. Dr Eugene Scott 9 kb 
132. John Gray tries to think 42 kb 
133. John Hick proves God 25 kb 
134. Mary Midgley on Scientists 22 kb 
135. Hershel Shanks: Who are the Nazi Scholars? 85 kb 
136. Jimmy Swaggart 6 kb 
137. Carl McIntire 7 kb 
138. Edwin Yamauchi and the Heart of Evangelism 26 kb 
139. Richard Dawkins 1996 Richard Dimbleby Lecture 24 kb 
140. Styles of Religious Belief, Richard Dawkins 12 kb 
141. Tipler on God and Hume 6 kb 

Pseudo-Science

142. Panpsychism or Sufi-Science 49 kb 
143. Biblical Archaeology 13 kb 
144. God and the Cosmologists 10 kb 
145. The Jesus Papyrus 19 kb 

Miscellaneous

146. I Expect To Pass Through This World But Once 7 kb 
147. Explain What Is Religion? 4 kb 
148. Is the Bible Ungrammatical 9 kb 
149. Is Jesus’ or Jesus’s the Possessive Jesus 9 kb 
150. The Dogma of the Flies 4 kb 
151. Western History Textbooks 40 kb 

Old Polemics

152. Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin 11 kb 
153. The Three Imposters I 44 kb 
154. The Three Imposters II 53 kb 
155. The Three Imposters III 48 kb 

Skeptical Resources—Internet infidels | Jesus Never Existed | Steven Carr’s Website | Christianism | Early Christian Writings | God is Imaginary | “Religion Detoxification” | Our Judaio-Christian Heritage | Jesus is a Myth | No Deity | No Beliefs | Evil Bible | Bible God | ex-Christians | Jesus Police | Islamic Faith Freedom | Atheist Experience | American Atheists | Jovial Atheist | Askwhy! books
Other Resources—Early Christian Docs | Resources for Study | Traditional Bible-History | Traditional Bible World History | Traditional Bible History | about.com biblical history | Apologetics web sites | Advent Ch Fathers | Orion center links | Wikipedia | Traditional Jewish History

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The British Department of Health in a study in 1994 of 84 alleged instances of satanic abuse concluded that not one stood up to scrutiny. The study explains:
“The Evangelical Christian campaign against new religious movements has been a powerful influence encouraging the identification of satanic abuse. Equally, if not more, important in spreading the idea of satanic abuse in Britain are the ‘specialists’, American and British. They may have few or even no qualifications as professionals, but attribute their expertise to experience of cases.”