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Mars Bugs and Intelligent Design — On a Collision Course?

_{Mike Keas
December 19, 2019}

I picture Ohio University officials turning as red as Mars over Professor Romoser’s exotic claims.

Atheism’s Myth of a Christian Dark Ages Is Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
January 22, 2019}

Did Christianity really drag the West into an anti-scientific “Dark Ages,” a period said to stretch from the fall of Rome to 1450 AD?

Myth: A Big Universe Is a Problem for Christianity

_{Mike Keas
January 11, 2019}

Atheists say people in the Western tradition had to wait for modern science to grasp that the universe was huge, and had to shed historic Judeo-Christian views to do so.

Unbelievable

_{7 Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion}_{Michael Newton Keas
January 7, 2019}

Scientists love to tell stories about the quest to understand the universe — stories that often have profound implications for belief or disbelief in God. These accounts make their way into science textbooks and popular culture. But more often than not, the stories are nothing but myths. Unbelievable explodes seven of the most popular and pernicious myths about science and religion. Michael Newton Keas, a historian of science, lays out the facts to show how far the conventional wisdom departs from reality. He also shows how these myths have proliferated over the past four centuries and exert so much influence today. The seven myths, Keas shows, amount to little more than religion bashing — and especially Christianity bashing. Unbelievable reveals: Why the vastness of …

Unbelievable: Science Fiction, Science Fact, and How to Tell the Difference

_{Mike Keas
December 18, 2018}

My box of books just arrived. Now you know what all of my family and best local friends are getting for Christmas this year.

In Colorado, Two Sneak Previews of Unbelievable

_{Mike Keas
December 6, 2018}

At Colorado State University, I was impressed by a question from a boy who was about 13 years old.

Out in November, New Book Debunks Myths of Science Versus Religion

_{Unbelievable: Debunking science and faith myths with Historian Mike Keas}_{Michael Newton Keas
August 30, 2018}

Praising science as way to implicitly, or explicitly, club religion over the head is a familiar feature of our culture. It’s not new, either. Mike Keas examines the phenomenon in a forthcoming book, out in November, Unbelievable: Seven Myths About the History and Future of Science and Religion. Rob Crowther chatted with Dr. Keas, a Discovery Institute Senior Fellow, at the recent Insiders Briefing down in Tacoma, a yearly event sponsored by the Center for Science & Culture. This way of pitting science against religion, through eagerly disseminated myths about history, is a subject that has cried out for documentation and analysis. You often get the sense that people who do it care a lot less about science per se than they do about sticking it to Christians and Christianity, in …

Richard Weikart on the Revealing Inconsistencies of Scientific Materialism

_{Mike Keas
April 18, 2016}

Dr. Weikart's new book, The Death of Humanity, is an important study of the erosion of the most basic values in the Judeo-Christian tradition of the West.

Remembering Arthur Balfour, Friend of Science and Friendly Opponent to Atheist Bertrand Russell

_{Mike Keas
November 20, 2014}

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I -- and this past week provided a terrible reminder that conflicts stirred by the war remain with us.

Term Limits: Eugenie C. Scott and the Retirement of “Darwinism”

_{Mike Keas
May 17, 2013}

Consider this sample of publications that have appeared since Eugenie Scott put her warning label on the term "Darwinism."

Reason, not Revelation: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Watchmaker

_{Mike Keas
April 29, 2012}

"I admire the workman in the details of his work, and I am quite certain that all these wheels only work together in this fashion for some common end which I cannot perceive."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Intelligent Design Advocate

_{Mike Keas
April 27, 2012}

According to a familiar accusation from critics of intelligent design, ID is nothing more than a recent invention of the Christian Right.

Darwinism, Design, and Public Education

_{David K. DeWolf, William A. Dembski, Stephen C. Meyer, Michael J. Behe, Paul Nelson, Jonathan Wells, Walter Bradley, Phillip E. Johnson and Michael Newton Keas
November 30, 2003}

This balanced volume contains essays by both supporters and critics debating intelligent design and whether design should be allowed in public school science classes. The scholars approach the question from the standpoints of constitutional law, philosophy, rhetoric, education, and science.

The Meanings of Evolution

_{Stephen C. Meyer and Michael Newton Keas
May 16, 2001}

“Evolution and the theories of evolution are fundamentally different things,” testified zoologist Maynard M. Metcalf, the first expert witness for the defense in the 1925 Scopes trial. Metcalf’s observation at the “trial of the century” officially marked the beginning of public discussion of the different meanings of evolution for the purposes of science education. “The fact of evolution is a thing that is perfectly and absolutely clear,” Metcalf explained, “but there are many points — theoretical points as to the methods by which evolution has been brought about — that we are not yet in possession of scientific knowledge to answer.”1 Metcalf’s statement suggested, as many modern biologists have noted, that the term evolution can mean different …