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


Christianity

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

Islam

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

Society and Polemics

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

Exodus

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

Evolution

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

Psychology of Religion

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

People

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

Pseudo-Science

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

Miscellaneous

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

Old Polemics

150. Institutes of the Christian Religion, Calvin 11 kb 
151. The Three Imposters I 44 kb 
152. The Three Imposters II 53 kb 
153. 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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Before you go, think about this…

The extent to which humanity can respond to the serious challenge before it depends on to what extent people get to understand what is really going on, and their willingness to abandon old morality in favour of new. Salvation is not private, it is collective. Our deity is not transcendental, she is real, she occupies the same space as we do, and we depend on her wellbeing. Nature serves us unconditionally. Our duty is to offer Her service in return. The ancients saw their duty as serving their gods. They were right, but our deity is real and needs our attention. Holiness is not an abstraction. It is fulfilling a sacred duty to the Goddess. It is Adelphiasophism in practice.