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Taner Edis

Taner Edis

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Critiques of Creationism

Islamic Creation in Turkey (1994) (Off Site)

Relativist Apologetics: The Future of Creationism (1997) (Off Site)

Taking Creation Seriously: Are Skeptics Answering Creationists Effectively? (1998) (Off Site)

Cloning Creationism in Turkey (1999) (Off Site)

Darwin in Mind: 'Intelligent Design' Meets Artificial Intelligence (2001) (Off Site)

Creationism to Universal Darwinism: Evolution and Religion Today (2003) (Off Site)

Harun Yahya and Islamic Creationism (2003) (Off Site)

A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam (2003) (Off Site)

Creationism to Universal Darwinism: Evolution and Religion (2002)

A short taste of the long-standing argument between religionists and evolutionists, where it has been, and where it is going. As Edis puts it, "Today, more than a century after Darwin convinced biologists that life had evolved, we still see a raging controversy over creation and evolution. Together with this, we have a large range of ideas about what evolution means for religion."

Book Reviews

Can Secular Philosophy Give Us Objective Morality? (2003)

On Two Reviews of Atheism, Morality and Meaning by Michael Martin (2003)

Exposing the Indefensible (2003)

A review of S.T. Joshi's God's Defenders: What They Believe and why They are Wrong

Review of Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination (2008)

Anthony Campbell's short and accessible Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination illustrates a temperament rather than providing exhaustive arguments against religious beliefs. Campbell thinks that the supernatural is not real, but there is no rancor in his view of religion. He does not treat supernatural convictions as a straightforward mistake curable by a steady application of common sense. Nor does he think that religion is invariably an evil. And even though he has come to think that religions involve too many false beliefs, he thinks that there are too many important questions entangled with our religious traditions to just cast them aside.

Taner Edis was born and raised in Turkey. He is a computational physicist, a professor of physics at Truman State University, and the author of several books, including: The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science; Science and Nonbelief; Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism; and Islam Evolving: Radicalism, Reformation, and the Uneasy Relationship with the Secular West.

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Review of Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination

| June 1, 2008 | Modern Library
Anthony Campbell's short and accessible Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination illustrates a temperament rather than providing exhaustive arguments against religious beliefs. Campbell thinks that the supernatural is not real, but there is no rancor in his view of religion. He does not treat supernatural convictions as a straightforward mistake curable by a steady application of common sense. Nor does he think that religion is invariably an evil. And even though he has come to think that religions involve too many false beliefs, he thinks that there are too many important questions entangled with our religious traditions to just cast them aside.
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How Western Liberals Undercut Dissidents From Islam

| July 24, 2016 | Kiosk Article
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"Liberals and leftists have acquired a reputation of shying away from any criticism of Islam. We liberals are well trained to be sensitive to whether our speech sounds appropriate. After the Charlie Hebdo massacre, many liberals condemned the blasphemy and the imagined racism of the murdered cartoonists as well as the violence. People who complain about "political correctness" have begun to speak of a "regressive left" that attempts to shut down any speech that may offend minority identities, particularly the religion and politics of Muslim immigrants. All this frustrates those of us who come from a Muslim background, but identify as secular liberals. If I had my way, liberals and leftists would start doing things differently."

The Rationality of an Illusion

| September 26, 2000 | Kiosk Article
We rail against supernatural faiths, not just for their palpable falsity, but for their sanctified cruelties, their crippled imaginations, and their all-too-common suspicion of human efforts to better our lives.
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