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Does Time Exist? Einstein, Julian Barbour, Lee Smolin, Some Greek Philosophers–And The New Data From The NASA Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope
Julian Barbour, Albert Einstein, and Parmenides vs. Anaximander and Lee Smolin. Theoretical physicist, Julian Barbour, believes that what we experience as time passing actually consists of frozen moments of space-time in relation to one another (akin to a flip book). It … Continue reading
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Brian Greene Still Thinks String Theory Has Promise
30 years of work on string theory without experimental verification has not deterred Columbia theoretical physicist Brian Greene. He’s still betting on string theory. Money quote from his January 2015 article in Smithsonian magazine: I’m gratified at how far we’ve … Continue reading
Jeremy England on the Origin of Life
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Lawrence Krauss on the Recent Direct Evidence for Cosmic Inflation–and What It Might Mean for God Belief
At The New Yorker, physicist Lawrence Krauss gives his take on the recent direct evidence that cosmic inflation is real. Money quote: At rare moments in scientific history, a new window on the universe opens up that changes everything. Today … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, cosmic inflation, God, gravity waves, multiverse, physics, science
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God or the Multiverse: Who or What Banged the Big Bang?
Physicists Andrei Linde and Alan Guth “distorted by gravitational waves.” (HuffPost image.) __________ Cosmic background radiation has long been considered by physicists to be the smoking gun evidence for the big bang, but what about the recent discovery of bent … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, astronomy, atheism, Big Bang, God, light, multiverse, physics, science
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Cosmic Inflation? John Horgan Taps the Brakes
Science writer John Horgan (who is not a physicist) is intrigued by the recent evidence for the theory of cosmic inflation, but is also holding out for some additional confirmation, support, and explanation before he buys what some prominent physicists, … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Big Bang, cosmic inflation, critical thinking, God, inflation, multiverse, physics, science
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Does the Recent Discovery of Cosmic Inflation Bolster the Multiverse Hypothesis?
Apparently it does, and that considerably. This comes via Space.com: The new research also lends credence to the idea of a multiverse. This theory posits that, when the universe grew exponentially in the first tiny fraction of a second after the … Continue reading
Dissipation-Driven Adaptive Organization: Is Jeremy England The Next Charles Darwin?
The guy to watch. There’s a young (31-year-old) MIT assistant professor of physics who may have discovered, via theorizing about thermodynamics and entropy, a supplement to natural selection, showing the origin and evolution of life to be, not a difficult … Continue reading
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Tagged Darwin, evolution, Jeremy England, molecules, origin of life, physics
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Does This Image Debunk Evolution?
A pastor in Colorado apparently thinks the above image scores big points against evolution, writing the following: This snowflake was photographed in Russia. Is this not a most amazing picture? Let’s see, this is either the result of evolution or … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Darwin, evolution, God, miracles, philosophy, physics, science, time
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What Goes Around Comes Around
Everything’s interconnected. The following is from G. Legman’s Rationale of the Dirty Joke Vol 2 (1973) p. 371: In a nice example of psychological displacement, Sir Walter Raleigh is said to have hit his son at the dinner table, whereupon his son in turn … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, ecology, interconnectedness, lee smolin, philosophy, physics, self
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Lee Smolin’s Time Reborn: Physics, Evolution, Atheism, and Buddhism
Theoretical physicist Lee Smolin’s new book, Time Reborn (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013), is mind-blowing–I assume it will still be talked about fifty years from now–and I’ll do my best in this post, having read the book through with great pleasure … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, Buddhism, Darwin, evolution, God, Leibniz, philosophy, physics, science
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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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Is Our Universe A Computer Simulation?
In the above image snapped at the Getty Villa in Malibu, poor crocodile is no crocodile at all, but the representation of a crocodile; the simulacrum of a crocodile. Might you be a simulacrum as well? This post is about … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, evolution, intelligent design, Matrix, multiverse, philosophy, physics, the library of babel, the matrix
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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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A Universe from Nothing? David Albert Owns Lawrence Krauss
In a recent review for the New York Times, philosopher David Albert explains the basic thesis of physicist Lawrence Krauss’s new book, A Universe From Nothing, in terms that are clear as a bell, then he skewers it just as effectively. … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Darwin, Genesis, God, Jesus, origins, philosophy, physics, science
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A Challenge for Atheist Materialism: Independent of Consciousness, Does Color Exist?
The astounding answer, according to Scientific American blogger Michael Moyer, is no: Pink is not out there, because no color is really “out there.” The world is full of electromagnetic radiation, and the only intrinsic properties that this radiation possesses are physical ones … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, color, God, Jesus, philosophy, physics, psychology
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“Multiverse of the Gaps” vs. “God of the Gaps”
Have you noticed? Contemporary theists and atheists, in their debates with one another, tend to invoke gap arguments that mirror each other. For the theist, God-of-the-gaps arguments are designed to introduce mind into an explanation; for the atheist, multiverse-of-the-gaps arguments … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, atheism, atheist, fine tuning, free will, God, god of the gaps, Jesus, multiverse, multiverse of the gaps, physics, reason
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