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Ninewells Home Atheology Philosophy Science Defender’s Guide to Science and Creationism Mathematics The Atheologian Click to toggle tag cloud actuarial mathematics · age of Earth · age of moon · anaximander · anaximenes · ancient philosophy · animal welfare · annuities · applied ethics · arguments against atheism · arguments for atheism · astronomy · atheism · atheological thoughts · blasphemy · books · calculus of variations · christianity · climate change · cosmological arguments · creationism · Darwin · definition of atheism · education · Einstein · epistemology · ethical theory · ethics · evolution · fine-tuning · first law of thermodynamics · foreign aid · forgiveness · fossils · free speech · free will · geology · Haldane’s dilemma · happiness · Hawking · history of philosophy · introduction to philosophy · irreducible complexity · Islam · just a theory · justice · logic · mathematics · meaning · milesians · military · moral argument · mutation · naturalism · Nazism · nozick · origin of life · origin of solar system · origin of universe · parmenides · pascal’s wager · philosophy of science · political philosophy · presocratics · problem of evil · problem of induction · radiometric dating · Rawls · relativity · Saturn’s rings · science · second law of thermodynamics · secularism · skepticism · Socrates · thales · the eye · theology · vestigial structures · walkthrough · writing Latest Articles Mathematics Derivation of the basic annuity-immediate formula Derivation of \(a_{\overline{n}|i} = \frac{1 – v^n}{i}\) Mathematics Notes on geometric series Some notes I have written on geometric series, mostly geared toward what works be Philosophy Parmenides and the big, bland, possibly spherical unity Join Parmenides in his quest to prove that reality is an eternal, undifferentiated, unchanging unity. Oh yes, and maybe spherical. Philosophy Socrates and troublemaking for the sake of truth You know him from Bill and Ted’s excellent adventure, but what’s the real deal with So-crates? Defender’s Guide to Science and Creationism Does evolution entail atheism? Evolution is compatible with both atheism and its denial. Defender’s Guide to Science and Creationism Was evolution the basis for Nazism or the Holocaust? Creationists often claim that evolution was responsible for Nazism and the Holocaust. Are they right? Philosophy Nozick’s theory of justice Briefly describes Nozick’s entitlement theory of justice. Philosophy Rawls’s theory of justice Covers some of the core concepts from John Rawls’s most influential book. Defender’s Guide to Science and Creationism Would ultraviolet light have prevented a natural origin of life? Direct UV light destroys amino acids and nucleic acid bases. How much of a problem was it for the origin of life? Defender’s Guide to Science and Creationism Does the age of Niagara Falls support young-earth creationism? If the earth is billions of years old, why hasn’t Niagara Falls or my hairline receded further? Latest Posts in The Atheologian Why I haven’t written for a long time Steven Weinberg (1933 -2021) Did Stephen Hawking believe in God? Scandanavia and suicide Ninewells...