Contents
Foreword
Chapter 1
The dilemma
Chapter 2
The training
Science
Culture and Science
Science and related professional areas
Physics
Laws of nature
Newton and classical physics
Einstein and the theory of relativity
Quantum physics or the world in the atomic scale
Cosmology and the origin of the world
Hawking and the Big Bang
Hoyle and the steady-state theory
The origin of the Earth
Geology
Cuvier and theory of catastrophes
Lyell and Actualism
Wegener and Plate Tectonics
Alvarez, the iridium anomaly and the death of the dinosaurs
The Origin of Life
The primordial soup and the basic building blocks of life
Comets and black smokers
Proteins and cells
Huxley and a living organism considered as a machine
No machine?
The evolution
Lamarckism
Darwinism
Neo-Darwinism
The permissible range of solutions
Out of range
Religion and Science
Orthogenesis
Velikovsky on a collision course
Von Däniken and the aliens
Sitchin and the Annunaki
Hoyle and the evolution from space
Sheldrake and the morphogenetic field
Dembsky, Behe and Intelligent Design
Henderson and the Flying Spaghetti Monster
Chapter 3
Workshop
The preparation
The experiment
The second experiment or the art to discuss properly
Brainstorming
Evaluation of the brainstorming
Ways to find the truth
Propositional logic
Predicate logic
Science put to the test
Formal sciences today
Physics in the acceptance test
Cosmology between theory and hypothesis
Geology examined
The origin of life under examination
Evolution in cross-examination
Lesson learned
Probabilities as a tool for evaluation?
What the blind watchmaker did not see
The second extension of the range of permissible solutions
Matter, spirit and mind
Spirit, mind and evolution
Freedom of Thought
Farewell