Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

Part I: What Is Evolution?

• What the theory of evolution says, and does not say.
• Debates about evolution among scientists.

Part II: The Relationship of Science & Religion

• Are science and religion in an either/or conflict?
• Can they peacefully coexist in separate worlds? Might science someday subsume religion?

Part III: Debating a Creationist

• An Evening With Duane T. Gish
• Creation mythology around the world
• The real meaning of myths is denigrated by trying to make them into science

Part IV: Old & New Creationism

• 25 Creationist Arguments & 25 Evolutionist Answers
  • Philosophically based arguments: 1–12
  • Scientifically based arguments: 13–25

Part V: The New Creationism

• Intelligent Design Theory & its Discontents
  • The Evolution of Creationism
    • The attempt to ban evolution
    • The demand for equal time for Genesis
    • Presenting creationism as science
  • Why creationism is not science. The U.S. Supreme Court ends the new creationism
  • The Rise of Intelligent Design Theory
    • Ten Intelligent Design Arguments and Ten Answers. The Nature of the Designer; Methodological Supernaturalism;
    • Intelligent Design Intervention; Irreducible Complexity;
    • Inference to Design; The Universe and Life Fine Tuned;
    • Explanatory Gaps; The Conservation of Information and the Explanatory Filter; Science Education and Debating Evolution;
    • Non-Religious Commitments