Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted.

World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.

Is uniformitarianism necessary?

The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion

Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.