This site is dedicated to introducing our book, Settled Science, to those seeking a better understanding of how the natural and supernatural worlds came to be, and humanity’s extraordinary adaptation to both.

Settled Science offers scientific answers to questions almost everyone ponders.

• How did the universe form, and from what?
• How did life on Earth begin and change over time?
• How did humans evolve?
• How and why did we invent religion?

Written primarily for individuals who do not have a strong background in the natural sciences, Floyd Glidewell takes the reader on a fascinating journey from the Big Bang itself to the marvelous achievements of man, and documents his selfish destruction of the Earth’s environment—a fragile system that has taken 4.5 billion years to build. Each step along the way is explained simply and clearly so readers can fully understand.

Learn how each major event in Earth’s history has had an impact on man’s evolution, and how man’s brain evolved capable of both wondrous and evil thoughts. Settled Science also discusses the most likely events that have led man to believe in supernatural explanations for his difficult living conditions in the present, and explores his hope for a better life after death. Join Floyd Glidewell as he takes you on an unforgettable trip through the universe and the history of man.

Visitors from outer space witnessing some Earthly religious ceremonies most likely would conclude the participants were either in a drug-induced stupor or that mankind had not as yet evolved a level of intelligence much above that of chimpanzees. However, the aliens would plainly see that the ceremonial participants strongly believed their behavior to be both purposeful and sane. The secretive whispers and laying on of hands practiced by some denominations would surely seem odd. Many disagree. Humans screaming incoherent chants at imaginary demons, demanding they immediately leave the bodies of other humans writhing on the floor, seems perfectly logical to people who believe some physical and mental diseases and “abnormal” homosexual and bisexual behaviors are caused by demons and they can be cast out by performing religious rituals. Ignorant, sane, or insane?

Why there was a “Beginning” is still a mystery. Religious leaders claim God, for His own reasons, decided the moment was right for Him to create the universe, life on Earth, and Man in His own image. Many theologians say it is unimportant when God began His Creation, only that He did. Others, however, insist God accomplished His creation less than 10,000 years ago; they require their parishioners to ignore, confront, and deny any scientific evidence that proves otherwise. Even some universities that award “academic degrees” require their professors to teach The Young Earth Theory. I presume the reason why the timing of “The Beginning” is so important to them is because a literal interpretation of Genesis would lead you to conclude that Earth is less than 10,000 years old and the Bible is God’s infallible word, is it not? If the timing of “The Beginning” is wrong, what else might be?

Opponents of evolution theory are desperately circling their wagons again trying to maintain their belief that all species of living organisms arrived on Earth at the same time in essentially their present form. Most have finally accepted mutation and natural selection as fact but insist they only explain small differences in the organisms within species and there is no evidence that new species evolve from old ones. WRONG!

Partially. This being so, homosexual individuals cannot be “cured” of homosexuality or re-trained to be heterosexuals. Overwhelmingly, most biologists agree that sexual orientation in humans is inherited but have not settled on exactly how it is determined.