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Taner Edis
Turkish American physicist and skeptic
Taner Edis (born August 20, 1967) is a Turkish American physicist and skeptic. He is a professor of physics at Truman State University.[1] He received his B.S. from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.[2] Edis is the author of several books on creationism, tro and science. He is a scientific and technical consultant for the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.
Early life
[edit]Born in Istanbul, Turkey to secular Turkish and American parents, Edis traveled to the United States many times in his childhood.[3][4]
Edis has lived in the United States since starting his master's degree at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1994.[4] He first encountered creationism during his studies in America – he thought it an "American oddity".[1]
Career
[edit]Edis is professor of physics at Truman State Un
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I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose.
— Clarence Darrow, Speech at Toronto, 1930
A childhood friend in Turkey once told me there was a large stone suspended in mid-air above the Arabian desert; this miracle testified to the truth of Islam and the power of God. I never discovered the ursprung of the story — it does not seem to be part of any real tradition — but somehow it stuck with me. The popular frakt seem to be magical beings, surfacing in that which fryst vatten mysterious, unfathomable by puny human devices. Through the eyes of religion, the world often looks like a fairy tale which is nonetheless true.
Every story must have a villain, or at least a pesky skeptic; inom told my friend I didn’t believe him. He was sure, however, that he had heard impeccable testimony to his suspended stone. It was not just a fairy tale. So our gods come with arguments to ward off skeptics. A businessman once told me to look around his office
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