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Worlds of Their Own
History is written by the winners; including the histories of science and scholarship. Unorthodoxies that flourish at the grassroots are often beneath the contempt of historians. Zetetic astronomy (flat-Earth science) was a household term in Victorian England, but not a single reference to it is found in conventional histories. We ignore such histories at our peril; the modern intelligent design movement is almost a carbon copy of the 19th century flat-Earth movement in its argumentative techniques. When orthodox science finds itself stumped, or a certain segment finds it unpalatable, the unorthodox may rush in to fill the void. The past two decades have brought a surge of interest in the hi...
Worlds of Their Own
This anthology of essays is a distillation of a lifetime of research into why some people extend their view of reality beyond the evidence or deny the common reality and create their own. Written with a droll humor and a manner respectful of those who profess alternative world-views, these essays nevertheless shine an intense light into the reasoning, the honesty, facts, and histories behind various pseudosciences. Ranging from the entertaining to those giving cause for concern, they examine topics as varied as Immanuel Velikovsky's collision with science and how an April Fool's article in Science Digest fooled many readers to how investors and government were taken by Perpetual Motion schemes and creationists are plotting to take over public school science curriculum.
Weird Earth
Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it's arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting through space, when held up to science and critical thinking, these ideas fall flat. In Weird Earth: Debunking Strange Ideas About Our Planet, Donald R. Prothero demystifies these conspiracies and offers answers to some of humanity's most outlandish questions. Applying his extensive scientific knowledge, Prothero corrects misinformation that con artists and quacks use to hoodwink others about geology—hollow earth, expanding earth, and bizarre earthquakes—and mystical and paranormal happenings—hea...
Cosmic Roots: The Conflict Between Science And Religion And How It Led To The Secular Age
Cosmic Roots traces the five-thousand-year conflict between science and religion — and how it has shaped our modern secular worldview.Told with rare clarity and striking insight, this fascinating and thought-provoking book focuses on the history of cosmology and its sister science astronomy. For it was discoveries within these great disciplines which first led to the conflict between science and religion. The story begins with the cosmological beliefs of the ancients — from the flat Earth models of the Sumerians and Hebrews to the Greek notion of the orbits of planets as divine circles. Topics progress from Aristotle and Ptolemy's integrated planetary models to the Sun-centered cosmologi...
Evolution Vs. Creationism
Presents the scientific evidence for evolution and reasons why it should be taught in schools, provides various religious points of view, and offers insight to the evolution-creationism controversy.
Planetary Dreams
The Quest To Discover Life Beyond Earth. "The 'dreams' that I write of are not the usual ones, the images that come up in our minds involuntarily during certain stages of sleep, but rather the hopes and expectations that we have lavished upon other worlds around us."-from the Preface. The surprisingly long history of debate over extraterrestrial life is full of marvelous visions of what life "out there" might be like, as well as remarkable stories of alleged sightings and heated disputes about the probability that life might actually have arisen more than once. In Planetary Dreams, acclaimed author Robert Shapiro explores this rich history of dreams and debates in search of the best current ...
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Orthodoxy, Liberalism, and Adaptation
Liberalism and Orthodoxy can only be succesfull as strategies for coping with change in society when they will be able to outline a recognisable and authentic framework for religiously informed pratcises and ethics.
Can You Trust the Bible?
The Bible is thousands of years old and has been copied, recopied, and translated endless times, so how do we know it's reliable? Walk through the scientific, historical, and archaeological evidence that leads experts and laypeople alike to land on the solid ground of the Word of God. Also discover the impact of the Bible and biblical history on our lives and why it's important to know what we believe and why! Can You Trust the Bible? is an easy-to-read yet comprehensive book that will help you understand how the Bible is ultimately trustworthy. Many Christians and non-Christians alike often wonder if a book written centuries ago can be trusted. Author Dr. Harold Sala is convinced that it ca...
Science Confronts the Paranormal
A Gallop poll surveyed 506 American teenagers, aged 13 to 18 and discovered the following:- 69% believe in angels - 59% believe in ESP- 55% believe in astrology - 28% believe in clairvoyance- 24% believe in Bigfoot - 22% believe in witchcraft- 20% believe in ghosts - 18% believe in the Loch Ness MonsterCarl Sagan has said that the wonders of real science far surpass the supposed and imagined mysteries of fringe science. Yet, as statistics show, the paranormal is still an endless source of fascination for people around the world.This collection of critical essays and investigative reports examines virtually every area of fringe science and the paranormal from a refreshingly scientific and cle...
