Good science book recommendations

[Monte_RCMS]

If you want to remove any intellectual credibility you might have, then advocating the DI is a good way to go about it. Their remit is to spread lies and disinformation, and call it “science.” It’s the home of IDC pseudo-scientist Michael Behe, among other non-credible sources of information.

Instead of using generalized pejorative language, how about just writing one or two specific sentences explaining what they teach and what’s non-credible about it.

Just one or two sentences:

 

[Sonoran_Son]

Okay. Well, all reasonable science books should meet your need then - none of them state that God is impossible or unnecessary, for the same reason that none of them state the unicorns and fairies are impossible or unnecessary.

Agreed. Most of the science books I have read do not mention the possibility of God either way. To me, when God is mentioned, it appears that the author(s) are purposely going out of their way to mix their personal views on God in with the science they are trying to present.

I also agree with wanstronian on the Discovery Institute.

 

[wanstronian]

Instead of using generalized pejorative language, how about just writing one or two specific sentences explaining what they teach and what’s non-credible about it.

Just one or two sentences:

Okay:

1. They advocate Intelligent Design as science. It isn’t.
2. They misrepresent (or maybe they don’t even understand) Evolution in order to try and refute it.
3. They have a mission statement to “challenge…neo-Darwinian theory” (hardly a scientific approach to discovery.)
4. They are disingenuous about their goal to get Creationism into science classes, phrasing it as a desire to “teach students more fully about the theory of evolution” (see point 2 regarding their misrepresentation of the theory).

 

[nguirado]

The kind of book I wanted was one on cosmology that allowed for the possibility of God. I don’t expect one that provides evidence from design or whatever to be rigorously scientific.

To be more specific, one that argues against the theories that claim to explain an atheistic universe.

 

[JoyfulRC]

Anthony Rizzi’s The Science Before Science may be what you are looking for. He has a comprehensive knowledge of physics and philosophy that allows him to explain complex ideas in an understandable way for those of us who are not experts in either field.

 

[wanstronian]

The kind of book I wanted was one on cosmology that allowed for the possibility of God. I don’t expect one that provides evidence from design or whatever to be rigorously scientific.

To be more specific, one that argues against the theories that claim to explain an atheistic universe.

Surely by definition, a Cosmology (in fact, I think you’re really talking about Cosmogony) text that disputes an atheistic universe, is one that claims a God-created universe? And without evidence, it wouldn’t be a very good text. Cosmology/Cosmogony is, after all, a science - at least in recent times.

 

[Pieman333272]

The kind of book I wanted was one on cosmology that allowed for the possibility of God. I don’t expect one that provides evidence from design or whatever to be rigorously scientific.

To be more specific, one that argues against the theories that claim to explain an atheistic universe.

I haven’t read it, but Peter Woit’s Not Even Wrong is a strong critique of string-theory, which has presented some arguments for natural causation/design of the Universe including M-Theory, which Stephen Hawking has become a recent proponent of. It’s not totally Cosmology, more theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, but it fits some of your criteria at least.