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A Short Biography of Victor John Stenger

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Victor John Stenger

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Born:

29 Jan 1935

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Particle Physicist, Atheist, Author, Philosopher and religious skeptic                          
Selected Works:

Books:

1988 - Not by Design: The Origin of the Universe
1990 - Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses 
1995 - The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology
2000 - Timeless Reality: Symmetry - Simplicity - and Multiple Universes
2003 - Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
2006 - The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? 
2007 - God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows that God Does Not Exist - New York Times Bestseller 
2009 - Quantum Gods: Creation - Chaos and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness
2009 - The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
2011 - The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning
2012 - God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

Peer-Reviewed Articles:

1964 - with W E Slater et al - 'K-N Interactions in the I=0 State at Low Energies; - Phys Rev 134 B1111 - Publication of Stenger's Ph D thesis results

1984 - The Production of Very High Energy Photons and Neutrinos from Cosmic Proton Sources - Astrophys. J.
1985 - Photinos from Cosmic Sources - Nature 317, 411
1986 - The Extraterrestrial Flux Sensitivity of Underground and Undersea Muon Detectors - Il Nuovo Cimento 9C, 479
1990 - The Universe: the ultimate free lunch - European Journal of Physics 11: 236-43
1999 - The Physics of 'Alternative Medicine': Bioenergetic Fields - The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine - Vol 3(1)
2000 - Natural Explanations for the Anthropic Coincidences - Philo 3: 50-67

Other Articles:

1993 - The Myth of Quantum Consciousness - The Humanist 53(13)
1996 - New Age Physics: Has Science Found the Path to the Ultimate?” Free Inquiry 16(3): 7-11
1996 - Cosmythology: Was the Universe Designed to Produce Us? Skeptic 4(2): 36-40
1997 - Quantum Metaphysics - ” in Laurence Brown - Bernard C Farr and R Joseph Hoffmann - eds - Modern Spiritualities - Amherst NY: Prometheus Books: 243-53 - Also published in 1997, The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine 1(1): 26-30
1998/99 - Has Science Found God? Free Inquiry 19(1): 56-58
1999 - The Physics of 'Alternative Medicine': Bioenergetic Fields The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM) 3(1): 16-21 
1999 - The Anthropic Coincidences: A Natural Explanation - Skeptical Intelligencer 3(3): 2-17
1999 - Anthropic Design: Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose? Skeptical Inquirer 23(4): 40-63
1999 - “Energy Medicine ” with David Ramey - DVM in Alternate Therapies in the Horse - New York: Howell Book House: 55-66
2000 - The Pseudophysics of Therapeutic Touch in Béla Scheiber and Carla Selby editors - Therapeutic Touch - Amherst NY: Prometheus Books: 302-11 
2001 - Humanity in Time and Space - Free Inquiry 21(2):42-69
2001 - Time's Arrows Point Both Ways: The View From Nowhen - Skeptic 8(4): 90-95
2001 - The God of Falling Bodies Skeptical Inquirer 25(5): 46-49
2001 - The Breath of God: Identifying Spiritual Force in Skeptical Odysseys - Paul Kurtz - ed - Amherst NY: Prometheus Books: 363-74
2003 - Anthropic Design: Does the Cosmos Show Evidence of Purpose? - Paul Kurtz, editor - Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? Amherst - NY: Prometheus Books: 47-49
2003 - The Premise Keepers - Free Inquiry 23(3)
2004 - Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Us? - Matt Young and Taner editors - Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism - New Brunswick NJ: Rutgers University Press: 172-84
2005 - Flew's Flawed Science Free Inquiry 25(2): 17-18
2006 - The Scientific Case Against a God Who Created the Universe, Michael Martin and Ricki Monnier, editors - The Improbability of God - Amherst NY: Prometheus Books - 
2006 - Do Our Values Come from God? The Evidence Says No - Free Inquiry 26(5): 42-45
2007 - Physics - Cosmology - and the New Creationism in Scientists Confront Creationism II - W W Norton
2008 - Is the Brain a Quantum Device? Skeptical Briefs 18(1)
2008 - Where Can God Act? The New Quantum Theology Free Inquiry 28(5): 1-36
Reality and Clock Time - Entries for the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences - 2nd edition - To be published by Macmillan Reference USA (Thomson Gale)

Time - Arrow of - Of Time, Asymmetry - Of Time,Operational Definition of Universe - Origin of - Planck time - Time - Symmetry of - Time - Units of Entries for The Encyclopedia of Time to be published by Sage Publications


Columnist:
From 1998 to 2011 Stenger wrote a column called Reality Check - for Skeptical Briefs, the quarterly newsletter of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI)                          
                          
Professional and Community Positions:

President, 1990–94, Hawaiian Humanists
Member of American Physical Society
Member of Editorial Board, Free Inquiry
Member of Society of Humanist Philosophers
Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Fellow of the Center for Inquiry
President, 2002–06, Colorado Citizens for Science.