Creationism

Saying that chapters 1 to 11 of Genesis make up a science text book is not only an affront to scientists, atheists, non-Christians and non-believers, but is deeply insulting to the intellect of the many theologians and believers who see the Bible as an inspired work of literature that explains the relationship between God and Man. The sites here provide some answers to the creationist nonsense listed at The Millenium Project.

Articles and other comments in The Millenium Project about creationism.

• 150 years since the death of creationism
• A night out with the creationists
• Argumentum ad whateverum
• "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
• Bogus Challenges
• Creation/Evolution Debate
• Creation/Evolution Debate – Part 1
• Creation/Evolution Debate – Part 2
• Creation/Evolution Debate – Part 3
• Creationists coming! Think of the children!
• Darwin visits the Blue Mountains
• Don't let straw men give you hay fever.
• Getting yourself hated
• Ian Plimer was right. They do tell lies for God
• Irregular regulation
• Knowing things that just ain't so
• Literal interpretation of the Bible
• Literature v Literalism
• Literature v Literalism (Y)
• Obituary – Stephen Jay Gould
• Polite request to creationists
• Science books? We don't need no stinkin' science books
• The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same
• The Woo Review
• What science isn't.

Some articles by other people.

• 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense – John Rennie
• A Refutation of Deism – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A scientist and Christian talks about Intelligent Design – David Goldney
• Creationist Deception Exposed – Barry Williams
• Homo Neanderthalensis – H.L. Mencken
• The Dissertation Kent Hovind Doesn't Want You to Read – Karen Bartelt
• The Information Challenge – Richard Dawkins
• Theology and Falsification – Antony Flew

books about Creationism.

• Abusing Science : The Case Against Creationism by Philip Kitcher
• Age of the Earth by G. Brent Dalrymple
• Astrobiology by Monica M. Grady
• Biogenesis : Theories of Life's Origin by Noam Lahav
• The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins
• Bullshit and Philosophy by Gary L. Hardcastle and George A. Reisch (Editors)
• Bullshit! Season 1 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 2 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 3 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 4 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bully for Brontosaurus : Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• But Is It Science? : The Philosophical Question in the Creation/Evolution Controversy by Michael Ruse (Editor)
• Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins
• Cosmos Boxed Set (Collector's Edition) DVD by Carl Sagan
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan
• Cradle of Life : The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils by J. William Schopf
• Creationism's Trojan Horse : The Wedge of Intelligent Design by Barbara Forrest and Paul R. Gross
• Creationism's Upside-Down Pyramid : How Science Refutes Fundamentalism by Lee Tiffin
• Darwin's Dangerous Idea : Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
• Defending Evolution : A Guide to the Evolution/Creation Controversy by Sandra M Alters and Brian J Alters
• Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner
• The Emergence of Life on Earth : A Historical and Scientific Overview by Iris Fry
• Endless Forms Most Beautiful : The New Science of EvoDevo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll
• Epic Of Evolution : Seven Ages Of The Cosmos by Eric J. Chaisson
• Evolution vs. Creationism : An Introduction by Eugenie C. Scott and Niles Eldredge
• The Extended Phenotype : The Long Reach of the Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth Miller
• The Flamingo's Smile : Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• Flock of Dodos : The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus (DVD)
• God, the Devil, and Darwin : A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory by Niall Shanks
• The Greatest Show on Earth : The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins
• Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes by Stephen Jay Gould
• The Human Question by Hervey Peoples
• In the Beginning : A Scientist Shows why the Creationists Are Wrong by Chris McGowan
• Intelligent Design Creationism and Its Critics by Roger Pennock (Ed)
• Interpreting Evolution : Darwin and Teilhard de Chardin by H. James Birx
• Life Everywhere : The Maverick Science of Astrobiology by David Darling
• Life's Origin : The Beginnings of Biological Evolution by J. William Schopf (Editor)
• Microcosmos : Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan
• Missing Links : Evolutionary Concepts and Transitions Through Time by Robert A. Martin
• The Mythmaker's Magic : Behind the Illusion of Creation Science by Delos B. McKown
• National Science Education Standards
• Origin of Life by A. I. Oparin
• Origins of Life by Freeman J. Dyson
• The Origins of Order : Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution by Stuart A. Kauffman
• The Panda's Thumb : More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould
• River Out of Eden : A Darwinian View of Life by Richard Dawkins
• Science and Creationism : A View from the National Academy of Sciences, Second Edition
• Science and Earth History : The Evolution/Creation Controversy by Arthur N. Strahler
• Science Made Stupid by Tom Weller
• Science Versus Religion by Tad S. Clements
• The Search for Life's Origins : Progress and Future Directions in Planetary Biology and Chemical Evolution
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Seven Clues to the Origin of Life : A Scientific Detective Story by A. G. Cairns-Smith
• Smithsonian Intimate Guide to Human Origins by Carl Zimmer
• The Spark of Life : Darwin and the Primeval Soup by Christopher Wills and Jeffrey Bada
• The Story of Evolution by Joseph McCabe
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
• Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science
• Teaching Evolution in Higher Education : Methodological, Religious, and Nonreligious Issues by Brian J Alters
• The Theory of Evolution by John Maynard Smith
• The Top Ten Myths about Evolution by Cameron M. Smith and Charles Sullivan
• Tower of Babel : The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
• The Triumph of Evolution … And the Failure of Creationism by Niles Eldredge
• Unintelligent Design by Mark Perakh
• A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence Krauss
• Unweaving the Rainbow : Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder by Richard Dawkins
• Vital Dust : Life As a Cosmic Imperative by Christian De Duve
• Why Intelligent Design Fails : A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism by Matt Young and Taner Edis (Eds)
• Why We Do It : Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene by Niles Eldredge
• Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould

Books relating to other categories can be found here.

There are sites listed in this category.

Answers in Science

"devoted to evolution & the science supporting it"

AntiEvolution.org

The Critic's Resource on Antievolution "AntiEvolution.org provides concise and accurate information for those who wish to critically examine the antievolution movement"

Australasian Science magazine (Peter Bowditch)

109 articles I wrote over 16 years for Australasian Science magazine.

Australian Skeptics Blog at Yahoo!7 (Peter Bowditch)

38 articles I wrote for Yahoo!7.

The complete work of Charles Darwin

This site currently contains more than 50,000 searchable text pages and 40,000 images of both publications and handwritten manuscripts. There is also the most comprehensive Darwin bibliography ever published and the largest manuscript catalogue ever assembled. More than 150 ancillary texts are also included, ranging from secondary reference works to contemporary reviews, obituaries, published descriptions of Darwin's Beagle specimens and important related works for understanding Darwin's context.

The Darwin Correspondence Project

"Darwin exchanged letters with nearly 2000 people during his lifetime. These range from well known naturalists, thinkers, and public figures, to men and women who would be unknown today were it not for the letters they exchanged with Darwin".

Darwin Manuscripts Project

Diffusion Radio

"If you like a good, broad mix of Science – new science, hard science, pop science, historical science and very silly science, listen to Diffusion"

The Evolution of the Mousetrap through Natural Selection (Alex Fidelibus)

Index to Creationist Claims

National Center for Science Education

"Defending the Teaching of Evolution in the Public Schools"

No Answers in Genesis! (John Stear)

"Creationism is not the alternative to Evolution – ignorance is"

Old Earth – Young Earth (Paul Braterman)

On The Origin Of Species By Means Of Natural Selection (Charles Darwin)

This copy of the book comes from Project Gutenberg

Other Resources for Defending Evolution (John Rennie)

A reducibly complex mousetrap (John H. McDonald)

"The mousetrap illustrates one of the fundamental flaws in the intelligent design argument: the fact that one person can't imagine something doesn't mean it is impossible, it may just mean that the person has a limited imagination"

The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

Science Made Stupid (Tom Weller)

The Secular Web

The Secular Web is owned and operated by Internet Infidels, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational organization dedicated to defending and promoting a naturalistic worldview on the Internet. Naturalism is the "hypothesis that the natural world is a closed system" in the sense that "nothing that is not a part of the natural world affects it." As such, "naturalism implies that there are no supernatural entities," such as gods, angels, demons, ghosts, or other spirits, "or at least none that actually exercises its power to affect the natural world." And without miraculous interventions into nature from a spiritual realm, neither prayer nor magick are more effective than a placebo.

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible (Steve Wells)

One form of religious bigotry is fundamentalism, or a belief in the inerrancy of the literal Bible. This site points out the inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible and also highlights the parts that the true believers would rather not talk about.

Steven J Gould Archive

Everything you need to know about Steven J Gould and his works and legacy.

The Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the Creation/Evolution Controversy

Talkdesign.org

Understanding Evolution