Science and Nonbelief

TANER EDIS is associate professor of Physics at Truman State University. While primarily a theoretical physicist, he has also written numerous articles on the secularist tradition in science. He is the author of The Ghost In the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science (2002) and co-editor of Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism (2004).

• Science, Philosophy and Religious DoubtPhilosophers, Doubting and DevoutThe Old Science and the Old FaithThe European EnlightenmentNon-Belief Comes of AgeScience and Non-Belief TodayScientific NaturalismAn Accidential WorldWhy Physics is HardThe Nature of Modern PhysicsThe Burden of ProofGod in the Cracks of CausalityQuantum MysticismCosmic HarmoniesFine-Tuning the UniverseA Moment of Creation?Physics and NaturalismDarwinian CreativityAchieving ComplexityThe Physics of EvolutionEvolution and ReligionOld Fashion CreationismIntelligent DesignCreation Through EvolutionUniversal DarwinismMinds Without SoulsMind and MatterCartesian DualismMachines Who ThinkGenes and MemesThe Conscious BrainQualia and SubjectivityMind Over MatterThe God ModuleParts and WholesNon-Belief Adapts to Brain ScienceThe Fringes of ScienceUltimate ExplanationsMiracles and Rejected KnowledgeScripture as MiracleFrom Spiritualism to New AgeSkiptics vs. PsychicsMircles in the LaboratoryUFO's and AliensDirect Experience of the Paranormal?Paranormal Skepticism and Non-BeliefExplaining ReligionToo Many ReligionsReligious StudiesRational Chioce TheoryThe Secularization ThesisReligion and Group SelectionA Virus of the MindThe Religious MindExplaining Theology and Non-BeliefMorality and PoliticsMore Than the FactsThe State of ScienceThe State of Non-BeliefA Morality of ReasonThe Science of MoralitySeparate SpheresAn Uneasy Alliance

This book, which defends nonbelief effectively from some attacks based on science (particularly those using intelligent design, anthropci principles or paranormal phenomena), could influence an inquirer to that that the claims of Christianity are false. Edis seeks to protect the scientific community's ability to benefit society, both against restrictions coming from religious conservatives, and against recognition of pseudoscientific ideas. The committed Christian reader could be helped to identify arguments to avoid in apologetics, and unresolved conflicts between science and faith.