R/ST 391I Course Reader

1. How do we rate on science quiz? Associated Press, 1998.

2. Proportion of Scientists Who Believe in God Has Changed Little in 80 Years, The Chronicle of Higher Education, April 11, 1997.

3. Larson, Edward J., Scientists and Religion in America, Scientific American, September, 1999.

4. Raloff, Janet, When Science and Beliefs Collide: A large and growing share of the population rejects aspects of science, Science News, Vol. 149, June 8, 1996.

5. D’Antonio, Michael, Science Fights Back. Is It Winning? The Answer Is NOT in the Stars. Los Angeles Times Magazine, February 11, 1996.

6. Cole, K.C., Factoring Faith Into Science, The Los Angeles Times, September 15, 1996.

7. Horgan, John, Between Science and Spirituality, The Chronicle Review, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 29, 2002.

8. McMullin, Ernan, A Common Quest for Understanding: The dialogue between religion and science must be an open one in which each retains its autonomy, America, February 11, 1989.

9. Science of the Sacred: from quantum mechanics to the evolution of life, rationalists discover awe. Newsweek, November 28, 1994.

10. Science & Religion: Blurring the Boundaries. Omni, August, 1994.

11. Pandian, Jacob.  The Dangerous Quest for Cooperation Between Science and Religion, Skeptical Inquirer, September/October, 2001.

12. Numbers, Ronald L. Creationism in 20^th Century America, Science, Vol. 218, 5 November 1982.

13. McMurtrie, Beth.  Darwinism Under Attack, The Chronicle of Higher Education, December 21, 2001.

14. Rennie, John. 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense, Scientific American, Vol. 287, No. 1, July 2002.

15. Krauss, Lawrence M., Words, Science, and the State of Evolution, The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 29, 2002.

16. Lemonick, Michael D. Dumping on Darwin: Pat Buchanan’s attacks on the teaching of "Godless evolution" tap a rich vein of unscientific thought, New York Times, July 12, 1998.

17. Evidence for Scientific Creationism?

18. Ignorance 101, Discover, September, 1998.

19. Judge William R. Overton’s decision in the Arkansas Creation Science case: Rev. Bill McLean vs. Arkansas Board of Education, Academe, Vol. 68, No. 2, March-April, 1982.

20. A theologian’s response to creation "science:" Countering the Creationists, Academe, Vol. 68, No. 2, March-April, 1982.

21. Kansas Cuts Evolution From Science Curriculum, New York Times, August 12th, 1999.

22. Kansas School Board Says Evolution Is Not Science, LA Times, Thursday, August 12, 1999.

23. Gould, Stephen Jay, Dorothy, It's Really Oz: A pro-creationist decision in Kansas is more than a blow against Darwin, Viewpoint, Time, August 23, 1999.

24. Creationism, a special section of NewScientist which includes Unnatural Selection: Creationism is mutating and spreading; You Asked For It: Sometimes scientists are their own worst enemies; Fighting Talk: How to argue the case for evolution, 22 April, 2000.

25. Wheeler, David L., For Biologists, the Postgenome World Promises Vast and Thrilling New Knowledge, The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 13, 1999.

26. Rause, Vince. Is God All in Your Head?  The Biology of Belief, Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 15, 2001.

27. Lowentrout, Peter, The Influence of Speculative Fiction on the Religious Formation of the Young: A Preliminary Statistical Investigation, Extrapolation, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter, 1988.

28. Mukerjee, Madhusree, Explaining Everything: Trends in Theoretical Physics, Scientific American, Vol. 274, No. 1, January 1996.

29. Tegmark, Max, Parallel Universes, Scientific American, May, 2003.

30. Cole., K.C., A New Slice on Physics, Los Angeles Yimes, May 17, 2003.

31. Saunders, Fenella, Astronomers Search for Dimension X, Discover, May, 2003.

32. Davies, Paul, That Mysterious Flow, Scientific American, September, 2002.

33. Linde, Andrei, The Self-Reproducing Inflationary Universe: Recent versions of the inflationary scenario describe the universe as a self-generating fractal that sprouts other inflationary universes, Scientific American, November, 1994.

34. Dogen on "Being-Time," from The Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau, editor, Beacon Press, Boston, 1967.

35. Ostriker, Jeremiah P. The Quintessential Universe, Scientific American, Vol. 284, No. 1, January, 2001.

36. Peebles, P. James E. Making Sense of Modern Cosmology, Scientific American, Vol. 284, No. 1, January, 2001.

37. Wheeler, John Archibald.  100 Years of Quantum Mysteries,  Scientific American, Vol. 284, No. 2, February, 2001.

38. Browne, Malcolm W., Signal Travels Farther and Faster Than Light, New York Times Online, July 17, 1997.

39. Davies, Paul. Looking-Glass Universes. Discover, May, 1988.

40. Cowen, Ron. When Branes Collide: Stringing together a new theory of the universe, Science News, Vol. 160, September 22, 2001.

41. Evading quantum barrier to time travel. Science News, vol. 153, April 11, 1998.

42. K. C. Cole, Of Space, Time and Strings: Rocking the foundations of physics, LA Times, November 16, 1999.

43. Hotz, Robert Lee. Seeking the Biology of Spirituality: is there a biochemistry of belief? LA Times, April 26, 1998.

44. Research News: Is Your Brain Really Necessary? Science, Vol. 210, 12 December 1980.

45. Bower, B., Scientists Peer into the Mind’s Psi, Science News, Vol. 145.

46. Carpenter, S., ESP Findings Send Controversial Message, Science News, July 31, 1999.

47. Ayer, A.J., What I Saw When I Was Dead: Intimations of Immortality, National Review, October 14, 1988.

48. Secrest, Meryle, Ian Stevenson: Finder of Past Lives, Omni, Vol. 10, No. 4, January 1988.

49. 'tHooft, Gerard, Physics and the Paranormal: A Theoretical Physicist's View, Skeptical Inquirer, March, 2000.

50. Nickell, Joe. John Edward: Hustling the Bereaved, Skeptical Inquirer,  November/December, 2001.

51. Predictably, Psychics Botch ’97 Forecasts, Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1998.

52. Heilemenn, John, Second Coming, PC Magazine, September 2, 2001.

53. Ancestral cut-ups. Science News, vol. 155 May 15, 1999. P. 315.

54. Giere, Ronald N., Deductive Reasoning/Inductive Reasoning, from Understanding Scientific Reasoning, Holt, 1984

55. Shermer, Michael, Smart People Believe Weird Things, Scientific American, September, 2002.