Reference bibliography
Reference bibliography
David H. Bailey, editor
Updated 29 September 2024 (c) 2024
This is a bibliography of references cited by articles on the MathScholar.org and other blogs. Items are listed alphabetically by label. Some of the online items may require a paid fee or subscription. All online links were checked and updated as needed on 27 March 2022 or more recently, but if you note errors or encounter dead online links, please notify the editor.
For a bibliography of technical articles written by Bailey, see
technical articles.
- [Abbot2023] D. Abbot, A. Bikfalvi, A.L. Bleske-Rechek, W. Bodmer, P. Boghossian, C.M. Carvalho, J. Ciccolini, J.A. Coyne, J. Gauss, P.M.W. Gill, S. Jitomirskaya, L. Jussim, A.I. Krylov, G.C. Loury, L. Maroja, J.H. McWhorter, S. Moosavi, P. Nayna Schwerdtle, J. Pearl, M.A. Quintanilla-Tornel, H.F. Schaefer III, P.R. Schreiner, P. Schwerdtfeger, D. Shechtman, M. Shifman, J. Tanzman, B.L. Trout, A. Warshel, and J.D. West, "In defense of merit in science," Journal of Controversial Ideas, vol. 3 (2023), no. 1, available at
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- [Abiogenesis2022] [no author] "Abiogenesis," Wikipedia, not dated but viewed 27 Mar 2022, available at
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- [Abrahamse1988] Allan F. Abrahamse, "Beyond stereotypes: Who becomes a single teenage mother?," Rand Corporation, 1988, available at
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- [Aczel2014] Amir Aczel, Why Science Does Not Disprove God, William Morrow, New York, 2014.
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- [AgeoftheEarth2014] [no author] "Age of the earth," Wikipedia, not dated but viewed 27 Mar 2022, available at
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- [Agrawal1998] Vikas Agrawal, Stephen M. Barr, John F. Donoghue and David Seckel, "The anthropic principle and the mass scale of the standard model," Physical Review Letters, vol. 80 (1998), pg. 1822-1825, available at
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- [Aguirre2009] Anthony Aguirre, "Making predictions in a multiverse: conundrums, dangers, coincidences," 2009, in [Carr2009].
- [AIModels2022] [no author], "Huge 'foundation models' are turbo-charging AI progress," Economist, 11 Jun 2022, available at
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- [AIG-Flood2016] [no author] "The flood," Answers in Genesis, not dated but viewed 27 Mar 2022, available at
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- [Allen2010] David L. Allen, "A reply to Tom Nettles' review of William A. Dembski's The end of Christianity: Finding a good God in an evil world," Feb 2010, available at
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- [AlphaGo2017] [no author], "The latest AI can work things out without being taught," The Economist, 21 Oct 2017, available at
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- [Amira2010] Dan Amira, "GOP's Delaware senate nominee Christine O'Donnell not a big fan of evolution," New York Magazine, 15 Sep 2010, available at
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- [Amit2017] Gilead Amit, "Dark energy is mutating, with grave consequences for the cosmos," New Scientist, 6 Dec 2017, available at
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- [Anderson2009] Kevin Anderson, "The wonderful unscientific teachings of Christianity," Answers in Genesis, 26 Feb 2009, available at
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- [Ananthaswamy2019] Anil Ananthaswamy, "Best-yet measurements deepen cosmological crisis," Scientific American, 22 Mar 2019, available at
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- [Andrews2019] Robin George Andrews, "'Toffee planets' hint at Earth's cosmic rarity," Scientific American, 3 Apr 2019, available at
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- [Armstrong2008] Karen Armstrong, The Bible: A Biography, Grove Press, New York, 2008.
- [Armstrong2009] Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2009.
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- [Aronowitz1988] Stanley Aronowitz, Science as Power: Discourse and Ideology in Modern Society, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 1988.
- [Aronowitz1996] Stanley Aronowitz, "The politics of the science wars," Social Text, no. 46-47 (Spring-Summer 1996), pg 177-197.
- [Astronomers2024] [no author] "Astronomers uncover risks to planets that could host life," University of Cambridge, 5 Aug 2024, available at
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- [Augustine1887] Saint Augustine, "Reply to Faustus the Manichean," 26.3, in Philip Schaff, ed., Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 4, Christian Literature Co., 1887, available at
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- [Augustine1952] St. Augustine, Marcus Dods (trans.), "The city of God," Great Books of the Western World, vol. 18, Encyclopedia Britannica, Chicago, 1952.
- [Augustine1982] Saint Augustine, "The literal meaning of Genesis," in J. H. Taylor, trans., Ancient Christian Writers, Newman Press, 1982, vol. 1.
- [Aune2003] David E. Aune, "Cosmology," Westminster Dictionary of the New Testament and Early Christian Literature, Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, 2003.
- [Avise2010] John C. Avise, Inside the Human Genome: A Case for Non-Intelligent Design, Oxford University Press, New York, 2010.
- [Axe2017] Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms that Life Is Designed, HarperOne, New York, 2017.
- [Ayala2007] Francisco J. Ayala, Darwin's Gift to Science and Religion, Joseph Henry Press, Washington, DC, 2007.
- [Ayala2010] Francisco J. Ayala, Am I a Monkey? Six Big Questions about Evolution, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010.
- [Baah2023] Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, R. Andres Castaneda Aguilar, Carolina Diaz-Bonilla, Tony Fujs, Cristoph Lakner, Minh Cong Nguyen and Martha Viveros, "March 2023 global poverty update from the World Bank," 29 Mar 2023, available at
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- [Baggott2013] Jim Baggott, Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, Pegasus Books, London, 2014.
- [Bahr1985] Howard M. Bahr and Bruce A. Chadwick, "Religion and family in Middleton, USA," Journal of Marriage and Family, vol. 47 (1985), pg. 407-414.
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- [Bailey2009] David H. Bailey, "Can an evolutionary process generate English text?", Biological Theory, vol. 4 (2009), pg. 125-131, preprint available at
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- [Bailey2012] David H. Bailey and Jonathan M. Borwein, "Ancient Indian square roots: An exercise in forensic paleo-mathematics," American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 119 (Oct 2012), pg. 646-657, preprint available at
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- [Bailey2014] David H. Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, Marcos Lopez de Prado and Qiji Jim Zhu, "Pseudo-mathematics and financial charlatanism: The effects of backtest overfitting on out-of-sample performance," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, May 2014, pg. 458-471, available at PDF.
- [Bailey2018] David H. Bailey, "2018: The year that artificial intelligence came of age," Math Scholar, 29 Dec 2018, available at
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- [Baggott2013] Jim Baggott, Farewell to Reality: How Modern Physics Has Betrayed the Search for Scientific Truth, Pegasus Books, NY, 2013.
- [Bakalar2001] Nick Bakalar and Richard Balkin, The Wisdom of Pope John Paul II: The Pope on Life's Most Vital Questions, Vintage Books, New York, 2001.
- [Baker1976] Sylvia Baker, Bone of Contention: Is Evolution True?, Evangelical Press, 1976.
- [Ball2023] Jude Ball, Richard Grucza, MichaelLivingston, Tomter Bogt, Candace Currie and Margaretha de Looze, "The great decline in adolescent risk behaviours: Unitary trend, separate trends, or cascade?," Social Science and Medicine, vol. 317 (Jan 2023), pg. 115616.
- [Banks2001] Tom Banks, Michael Dine and Lubos Motl, "On anthropic solutions of the cosmological constant problem," Journal of High Energy Physics, vol. 2001 (14 Feb 2001), available at
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- [Barbour1997] Ian G. Barbour, Religion and Science: Historical and Contemporary Issues, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1997.
- [Barbour2000] Ian G. Barbour, When Science Meets Religion, HarperCollins, New York, 2000.
- [Barnes2013] Luke A. Barnes, "The fine-tuning of the universe for intelligent life," Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 29 (2 Jan 2013), pg. 529-564, available at
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- [Barnes2015] Luke A. Barnes, "Binding the diproton in stars: anthropic limits on the strength of gravity," Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 29 Dec 2015, available at
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- [Barnes2017] Luke A. Barnes and Geraint F. Lewis, "Producing the deuteron in stars: anthropic limits on fundamental constants," Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, vol. 2017 (Jul 2017), available at
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- [Barnes1981] Barry Barnes and David Bloor, "Relativism, rationalism and the sociology of knowledge," in Rationality and Relativism, M. Hollis and S. Lukes, ed., Blackwell Press, Oxford, UK, 1981.
- [Barnes2018] Luke A. Barnes, Pascal J. Elahi, Jaime Salcido, Richard G. Bower, Geraint F. Lewis, Tom Theuns, Matthieu Schaller, Robert A. Crain and Joop Schaye, "Galaxy formation efficiency and the multiverse explanation of the cosmological constant with EAGLE simulations," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 477 (Jul 2018), pg. 3727-3743, available at
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- [Barr2007] Stephen M. Barr, "Anthropic tuning of the weak scale and of m(u)/m(d) in two-Higgs-doublet models," Physical Review D, vol. 76 (2007), 045002, available at
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- [Barr2010a] Stephen M. Barr, "The end of intelligent design?" First Things, 9 Feb 2010, available at
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- [Barr2010b] Stephen M. Barr, "The laws of physics and the design of the universe," in Melville Y. Stewart, ed., Science and Religion in Dialogue, vol. 2, John Wiley, Malden, MA, 2010.
- [Barras2017] Colin Barras, "Homo naledi is only 250,000 years old -- here's why that matters," New Scientist, 25 Apr 2017, available at
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- [Barringer2011] Felicity Barringer, "New electricity meters stir fears," New York Times, 30 Jan 2011, available at
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- [Barrow1986] John D. Barrow and Frank J. Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, Oxford University Press, New York, 1986.
- [Barrow2007] John D. Barrow, New Theories of Everything, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2007.
- [Barrow2008] John D. Barrow, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen J. Freeland and Charles L. Harper, Jr., ed., Fitness of the Cosmos for Life: Biochemistry and Fine-Tuning, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2008.
- [Barrow2008a] John D. Barrow, "Chemistry and sensitivity," 2008, in [Barrow2008].
- [Barrow2009] John Barrow, "Living in a simulated universe," 2009, in [Carr2009].
- [Basaltic1981] Basaltic Volcanism Study Project, Basaltic Volcanism on the Terrestrial Planets, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, 1981, available at
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- [Beck2018] Julie Beck, "The new age of astrology," The Atlantic, 16 Jan 2018, available at
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- [Beech2011] Martin Beech, "Since when was the Sun a typical star?," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, vol. 105, pg. 232, available at
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- [Behe1994] Michael J. Behe, "Experimental support for regarding functional classes of proteins to be highly isolated from each other," in J. Buell and V. Ahern, ed., Darwinism, Science or Philosphy?, Foundation for Thought and Ethics, Richardson, TX, 1994, also available at
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- [Behe1996] Michael J. Behe, Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1996.
- [Behe2000] Michael J. Behe, "Philosophical objections to intelligent design: Response to critics," 31 Jul 2000, available at
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- [Behe2007] Michael J. Behe, The Edge of Evolution: The Search for the Limits of Darwinism, Free Press, New York, 2007.
- [Beil2011] Laura Beil, "The certainty of memory has its day in court," New York Times, 28 Nov 2011, available at
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- [Bell2011] Michael A. Bell, Windsor E. Aguirre and Nathaniel J. Buck, "Twelve years of contemporary armor evolution in a threespine stickleback population," Evolution, vol. 58 (2004), pg. 814-24, available at
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- [Bentley1962] W. A. Bentley and W. J. Humphreys, Snow Crystals, Dover, 1962.
- [Bergman1999] Jerry Bergman, "Darwinism and the Nazi race holocaust," Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal, vol. 13, no. 2 (Nov 1999), pg. 101-111.
- [Berlin2001] Adele Berlin, "Cosmology and creation," The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion, Oxford University Press, London, 2011.
- [Bhanoo2013] Sindya N. Bhanoo, "Milk of human kindness also found in bonobos," New York Times, 7 Jan 2013, available at
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- [Billings2015] Lee Billings, "Alien supercivilizations absent from 100,000 nearby galaxies," Scientific American, 17 Apr 2015, available at
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- [Billings2016] Lee Billings, "$100-million plan will send probes to the nearest star," Scientific American, 12 Apr 2016, available at
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- [Bishop2010] George F. Bishop, Randal K. Thomas and Jason A. Wood, "Americans' scientific knowledge and beliefs about human evolution in the year of Darwin," Reports of the National Center for Science Education, vol. 30, no. 3, pg. 16-18, available at
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- [Bjorken2001] James D. Bjorken, "Standard model parameters and the cosmological constant," Physical Review D, vol. 64 (25 Sep 2001), pg. 085008, available at
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- [Bjorken2009] James D. Bjorken, "The definition and classification of universes," 2009, in [Carr2009].
- [Blackwell2002] Richard J. Blackwell, "Galileo Galilei," in [Ferngren2002].
- [Blau2017] Francine D. Blau and Anne E. Winkler, "Women, work and family," National Bureau of Economic Research, Aug 2017, available at
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- [Blum2012] Jason N. Blum, "Dawkins in wisdom's garden," Theology and Science, vol. 10 (2012), pg. 199-213.
- [Boardman1973] William W. Boardman, Robert F. Koontz and Henry M. Morris, Science and Creation, Creation-Science Research Center, San Diego, CA, 1973.
- [Boakye-Agyemang2022] Collins Boakye-Agyemang, "Healthy life expectancy in Africa rises by almost ten years," ReliefWeb, 4 Aug 2022, available at
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- [Bob2012] Yonah Bob, "Archaeologists find first proof of ancient Bethlehem," Jerusalem Post, 23 May 2012, available at
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- [Gobhossian2006] Paul Boghossian, Fear of Knowledge: Against Relativism and Constructivism, Oxford University Press, UK, 2006.
- [Bohannon2013] John Bohannon, "Who's afraid of peer review?," Science, vol. 342 (2013), pg. 60-65, available at
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- [Bohr1987] Niels Bohr, Essays and Papers, 1987, reprinted in Michael Green, Quantum Physics and Ultimate Reality: Mystical Writings of Great Physicists, Amazon Kindle, 13 Aug 2014.
- [Borg2001] Marcus J. Borg, Reading the Bible Again for the First Time: Taking the Bible Seriously but Not Literally, HarperSanFrancisco, 2001.
- [Bostrom2008] Nick Bostrom, "Where are they? Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing," MIT Technology Review, May/June 2008, pg. 72-77, available at
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- [Bostrom2009] Nick Bostrom, "Observation selection theory and cosmological fine-tuning," 2009, in [Carr2009].
- [Boudry2018] Maarten Boudry and Massimo Pigliucci, Science Unlimited? The Challenges of Scientism, University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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- [Bousso2009] Raphael Bousso, Lawrence J. Hall, Yasunori Nomura, "Multiverse understanding of cosmological coincidences," Physical Review D, vol. 80 (2009), 063510, available at
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- [Boyle2022] Latham Boyle and Neil Turok, "Thermodynamic solution of the homogeneity, isotropy and flatness puzzles (and a clue to the cosmological constant)," ArXiv manuscript, 6 Oct 2022, available at
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- [Bromham2016] Lindell Bromham, An Introduction to Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics, Oxford University Press, USA; 2nd UK edition, 2016.
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- [Brown2001] Walt Brown, In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Center for Scientific Creation, Phoenix, ZA, 2001.
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- [Browne2003] Janet Browne, Noah's Flood, the Ark, and the Shaping of Early Modern Natural History, in [Lindberg2003], pg. 111-138.
- [Bryan2014] [no author] "William Jennings Bryan," Wikipedia, not dated but viewed 27 Mar 2022, available at
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- [Bubeck2023] Sebastien Bubeck, Varun Chandrasekaran, Ronen Eldan, Johannes Gehrke, Eric Horvitz, Ece Kamar, Peter Lee, Yin Tat Lee, Yuanzhi Li, Scott Lundberg, Harsha Nori, Hamid Palangi, Marco Tulio Ribeiro and Yi Zhang, "Sparks of artificial general intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4," ArXiv, 13 Apr 2023, available at
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- [Bullivant2019] Stephen Bullivant, Miguel Farias, Jonathan Lanman and Lois Lee, "Understanding unbelief: Atheists and agnostics around the world," St. Mary's University, Twickenham, London, UK, 2019, available at
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- [Burton2018] Krista Burton, "Is astrology religion for those of us with no religion," New York Times, 15 Jun 2018, available at
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- [BYUPacket1992] [no author] "Evolution and the origin of man," 1992, Brigham Young University, available at
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- [Callaway2013] Ewen Callaway, "Neanderthal settlements point to earlier extinction," Nature News, 4 Feb 2013, available at
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