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13.7 Billion Years Divided By 365: 40 Million Years Is A Day; A Day, 40 Million Years
In the debut episode of the new Cosmos series, hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Hand Stuever of The Washington Post describes the football field sized cosmological calendar that Tyson uses to put our 13.7 billion-year-old big bang universe into time … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Bang, carl sagan, cosmology, evolution, life, science, space, time
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An Infinity of Doppelgängers: The Jaw Dropping NYT Science News Story You May Have Missed
The most nightmarish news bringing in 2013 isn’t coming from Iran or the Republican Party, but physicists and cosmologists: you–yes, you–may have a twin, a doppelgänger. Seriously. Lots and lots and lots of them. As may all of us. Written by science … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, cosmology, God, Jorge Luis Borges, lucretius, Nietzsche, philosophy, physics, science
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Paul Broun: Big Bang and Evolution Come From The Pit Of Hell
Paul Broun is a medical doctor. He’s also a Republican Congressman from Georgia who serves as the chair of a science committee in the House of Representatives. The chair. Of a science. Committee. Here’s what he says about the Big … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, Big Bang, cosmology, creationism, evolution, faith, Genesis, Jesus, science
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A Universe from Nothing? Lee Smolin Sasses Lawrence Krauss’s Confidence Atheism
Buried deep in the comboxes of a post at the blog site What There Is and Why There Is Anything, the physicist Lee Smolin took the time to weigh-in on whether one of his colleagues, Lawrence Krauss, should be claiming … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, cosmology, faith, God, Jesus, lawrence krauss, lee smolin, physics, science
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Paul Davies Says Stephen Hawking’s New Book Doesn’t Quite Get Rid of God Completely
Physicist Paul Davies, reviewing, for the Guardian, Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design (Bantam 2010), says this: The laws of physics can explain, he says, how a universe of space, time and matter could emerge spontaneously, without the need … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, cosmology, creation, evolution, Genesis, God, multiverse hypothesis, origins, paul davies, physics, Stephen Hawking
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Shadows on a Distant Wall: Nikodem Poplawski Says We Might Be Living in a Black Hole
In a new theory worthy of Alice in Wonderland, the Washington Post reports today that a cosmologist, Nikodem Poplawski, posits that each black hole may contain a universe inside of it, and we ourselves may be inside a black hole: We could be … Continue reading
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Tagged black holes, carl sagan, consciousness, cosmology, holographic principle, holographic universe, LSD, mushrooms, physics, science, trippy
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Physicist Lawrence Krauss’s Ultimate Origins Talk at AAI
I’m an agnostic who is not really all that sympatico with movement atheism, but earlier this month, I attended all of the Saturday sessions of the Atheist Alliance International (AAI) annual conference in Burbank, California. Most of the luminaries of the New Atheist … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, big bang cosmology, cosmology, Genesis, God, lawrence krauss, physics, Richard Dawkins, science
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Sure, Atheism’s Not a Faith
Confidence atheist PZ Myers this week on how (contra Francis Collins) he reconciles his atheist faith with the curious life-friendly values of the cosmological constants: What about chance? There’s nothing impossible about the fact that our universe was the product … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Big Bang, cosmological constants, cosmology, faith, life, PZ Myers, religion, universe
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Quote for a Sunday
Physicist Paul Davies on the perplexities of the life and consciousness friendly universe and its origin: The problem with saying God did it is that God himself or herself is unexplained, so you’re appealing to an unexplained designer. It doesn’t actually … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, biology, cosmology, philosophy, physics, psychology, religion, science v. religion, theology
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Quote of the Day: Einstein on the Ontological Mystery (Mystery of Being)
Albert Einstein did not believe in a personal deity, but he was willing to talk about the ontological mystery (the mystery of being) in ways that bordered on the religious: The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, albert einstein, aphorism, atheism, biology, cosmology, evolution, heidegger, ontology, philosophy, religion, science
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Intelligent Design v. The Multiverse?: Discover Magazine Has a Fascinating Article on the Fine Tuning of the Universe—and Its Implication for God-Belief
Money quote: If the multiverse is the final stage of the Copernican revolution, with our universe but a speck in an infinite megacosmos, where does humanity fit in? If the life-friendly fine-tuning of our universe is just a chance occurrence, … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, Charles Darwin, cosmology, creationism, doubt, evolution, life, multiverse, multiverse hypothesis, physics, Steven Weinberg
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Prometheus Unbound 