Papers and Articles

You can read the full text of most of the following papers and articles, in either HTML or PDF. Unless full journal information appears, these are preprints, and slight differences may exist between them and any final published version.

Physics

• T. Edis, K.E. Grant, and P. Cameron-Smith, "Stratospheric Relaxation in IMPACT's Radiation Code," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-226128 (2006).
• T. Edis, K.E. Grant, and P.J. Cameron-Smith, "Update on the Radiation Code in IMPACT: Clouds, Heating Rates, and Comparisons," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-215001 (2005).
• T. Edis, P. Cameron-Smith, K.E. Grant, D. Bergmann and C.C. Chuang, "Testing IMPACT's Radiation Code," LLNL Technical Report UCRL-TR-205281 (2004).
• D.S. Guo, R.R. Freeman, L. Gao, X. Li, P. Fu, T. Edis and A. Troha, "Spin-other-orbit Effect of Photon Modes," Journal of Physics B, 34:15 2983 (2001).
• T. Edis, J.D. Fan, D. Bagayoko and J.T. Wang, "A Two-dimensional Structure Factor Calculation for the Cu-1 Plane in YBa₂Cu₃O₆," International Journal of Modern Physics B, 12:29-31 3091 (1999).
• J.D. Fan, G.L. Zhao, T. Edis, and Y.M. Malozovsky, "Molecular-dynamics-simulation Study of the Two-dimensional Lattice Structure of the Cu-1 plane in YBa₂Cu₃O_6+x," Physical Review B, 56:17 10747 (1997).
• T. Edis and K. Moorjani, "The Weak Link Magnetically Modulated Resistance Response in Granular Superconducting Systems," Physical Review B, 51:2 1124 (1995).
• "Unusual Constraints in the Quantum Statistical Mechanics of Josephson Junction Systems," Journal of Statistical Physics, 71 313 (1993).
• M. Rasolt, T. Edis and Z. Tesanovic, "Kosterlitz-Thouless Transition and Charge Redistribution in the Superconductivity of YBCO/PBCO Superlattices," Physical Review Letters, 66:22 2927 (1991).

Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, Humanities

• "Religion: Accident or Design?," in Joseph Bulbulia et al, eds., The Evolution of Religion: Studies, Theories, and Critiques (Santa Margarita: Collins Foundation Press, 2008).
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Biology and 'Created Nature': Gender and the Body in Popular Islamic Literature in Modern Turkey and the West," Arab Studies Journal, 12:2/13:1 140 (2005).
• A.S. Bix and T. Edis, "Museum Review: The Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Istanbul," Technology and Culture, 45:3 590 (2004).
• "Resolving Goodman's Paradox: How to Defuse Inductive Skepticism," draft in progress; to be revised.
• "How Gödel's Theorem Supports the Possibility of Machine Intelligence," Minds and Machines, 8 251 (1998).

Critiques of Creationism

• "Harun Yahya's Legal Troubles," (to be published).
• "Islamic Creationism: A Short History," The History of Science Society Newsletter (January 2008).
• "Intelligent Design: A Blind Alley," IslamOnline.net (September 2007).
• "The Rise of Islamic Creationism," International Humanist News 24 (August 2007).
• "ABD’deki Yaratılışçı Akımlar ve Türkiye ile Bağlantıları," Bilim ve Gelecek 39 14 (2007).
• "Why 'Intelligent Design' is More Interesting than Old-fashioned Creationism," Georgia Journal of Science 63:3 189 (2005).
• "The Return of the Design Argument," Philosophy Now 50 (2005). [Review of Debating Design edited by Dembski and Ruse, and The Hidden Face of God by Gerald Schroeder.]
• "A World Designed by God: Science and Creationism in Contemporary Islam," in Paul Kurtz, ed., Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).
• "Harun Yahya and Islamic Creationism," also in Darwin Day Collection One.
• "Creationism to Universal Darwinism: Evolution and Religion Today," in Amanda Chesworth et al., eds., Darwin Day Collection One (Albuquerque: Tangled Bank, 2003).
• "Darwin in Mind: `Intelligent Design' Meets Artificial Intelligence," The Skeptical Inquirer, 25:2 35 (2001).
• "Cloning Creationism in Turkey," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 19:6 30 (1999).
• "Taking Creation Seriously: Are Skeptics Answering Creationists Effectively?," Skeptic, 6:2 56 (1998).
• "Relativist Apologetics: The Future of Creationism," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, 17:1 17 (1997).
• "Islamic Creationism In Turkey," Creation/Evolution, 34 1 (1994).

Other Skeptical Topics

• "Review of Totality Beliefs and the Religious Imagination," The Secular Web, May 2008.
• "Universe, Origin of the, and Unbelief," entry in Tom Flynn, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief (Amherst: Prometheus, 2007).
• "The Best and Brightest Fanatics," op-ed distributed internationally by Project Syndicate, August 2007.
• "A False Quest for a True Islam," Free Inquiry, 27:5 48 (2007).
• "A game of dice: physics, randomness, and naturalism," for the Jefferson Center.
• "Democracy vs Secularism in the Muslim World," in Barry F. Seidman and Neil J. Murphy, eds., Toward A New Political Humanism (Amherst: Prometheus, 2004).
• "Exorcizing All The Ghosts," The Skeptical Inquirer, 28:2 35 (2004).
• "An Accidental Critic," in Ibn Warraq, ed., Leaving Islam (Amherst: Prometheus, 2003).
• "Flipping a Quantum Coin," Free Inquiry, 23:2 60 (2003).
• "Can Secular Philosophy Give Us Objective Morality?," The Secular Web, March 2003. [Review of Atheism, Morality, and Meaning by M. Martin.]
• "An Accidental World," Free Inquiry, 22:4 57 (2002).
• "The Rationality of an Illusion," The Humanist, 60:4 28 (2000).
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Tales of Hysteria," The Skeptical Inquirer, 21:5 52 (1997). [Review of "Hystories" by E. Showalter.]
• T. Edis and A.S. Bix, "Bashing the Science-bashers," The Skeptical Inquirer, 19:2 46 (1995). [Review of Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science by P.R. Gross and N. Levitt.]
• "'Quran-science': Scientific miracles from the 7th century?," accepted by Free Inquiry but ended up on their back-burner and forgotten.

Short Pieces

These were published in various newletters of skeptic groups, plus the British magazine The Skeptic.

• "Fallacies About Fallacies?"
• "Equality and Liberty" (review).
• "A Buddhist Critique of the Christian Concept of God" (review).
• "In Praise of Bias"
• "The Real Scientific Method" (humor).
• "The Pagan Path" (review).
• "The Mars Effect" (reviews).
• "The Paranormal" (review).

For a host of my one-paragraph book reviews, visit the SKEPTIC Annotated Bibliography.