Curbstone Critic Mentioned in New Book

Prof. Vic Stenger is Emeritus Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Hawaii. He is presently Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado.

He has written numerous books on science, and science and religion. Above is the dust jacket of his latest, in which this author gets an honorable mention.

Stenger thinks, as do most scientists that there is no need whatsoever, of any supernatural explanation for anything in the universe. In almost 400 years of systematic investigation of nature there is not one single solitary example of any need for any explanation of any phenomena in the universe that involves the supernatural.

Not in physics....

Not in Chemistry...

Not in Biology ...

I am the token biologist on Vic Stenger's listserve where he discusses with his peers what he is writing, and they act as editors and peer reviewers for him. I stay away from the physics, mainly becasuse I don't understand what they are talking about half the time. But I do jump in occasionally when physicists dabble in Biology. Mostly they do an excellent job. They pulled our fat out of the fire in the 70's and 80's when the creationists (I prefer to call them cretinists) crawled out from the woodwork again to make fools of themselves fighting organic evolution. We biologists were absent, in large part, from the battlefield because we thought it was such a stupid subject that it was demeaning to participate. That has all changed.

Stenger offers several examples and knockdowns of old religious canards such as Paley's watchmaker analogy (almost 200 years old) and the Anthropic Principal(s), to show that all these questions are false in themselves and that there is absolutely no reason to suspect any influence outside the laws of nature to either cause them or to explain them.

You can read many of Stenger's articles in the popular literature by going HERE and brousing through his website.