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The Universe is Young, Not Old. Really. Gregg Easterbrook Says This: “Creation glistens with the dew of morning.”
At Reuters, Gregg Easterbrook has an imagination bending little essay that surveys what astronomers think they now know about the cosmos: Current evidence suggests the universe may continue, in roughly its current form, for at least hundreds of billions more years: which, to … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, evolution, God, morning has broken, NASA, space, stars, the cosmos, the universe, young earth creationism
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What Is The Universe? And What Should We Be Doing In It?
My guess is that the universe may be the mind of God calculating—then presenting the sums, before the witness of consciousness, in four dimensions (height, width, depth, and time). The universe, as it were, is the ones and zeroes made flesh; God’s search … Continue reading
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Tagged Dionysus, gandhi, love, Martin Luther King, math, physics, the mind of god, the universe, Tolstoy, wine
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Thinking about Symmetry via Stuart Kauffman, William Blake, AR Ammons, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Robert Frost—and My Wife
Biologist Stuart Kauffman blogs for the National Public Radio (NPR) website, and recently wrote a post reflecting on the universe’s symmetry breaking: To begin at the beginning, . . . The universe started extremely hot, dense, and essentially uniform, or isotropic. Perhaps all four … Continue reading
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Tagged ar ammons, Big Bang, origins, philosophy, physics, Robert Frost, science, stuart kauffman, symmetry, the universe, William Blake
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The Holographic Universe: the Unbreakable Lightness of Being?
After reading yesterday’s mind-bending New York Times article on gravity (and the possibility that we live in a holographic universe), I think I’ve put it all together. But I need a very smart physicists or science oriented person to set … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, creation, david bohm, evolution, Genesis, holism, holographic universe, intelligent design, origins, physics, the universe
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Not down Alice’s rabbit hole, but down Nikodem Poplawski’s wormhole?
Indiana University Monday: IU theoretical physicist Nikodem Poplawski in research published in “Physics Letters B” uses Euclidean-based mathematical modeling to suggest that all black holes may have wormholes inside which exist universes created at the same time as the black holes. And Nikodem Poplawski’s mathematical … Continue reading
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Tagged alice in wonderland, atheism, black holes, creation, dream, God, life, nikodem poplawski, physics, the universe, wormholes
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Is the Universe a Quantum Computer?
A new book by Vlatko Vedral, Decoding Reality (2010), makes the case for this, and according to the reviewer of the book at New Scientist Vedral also gives a bit of intellectual support to some ideas that circulate among Hindu yogis: Vedral holds out … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Buddhism, computers, Hinduism, philosophy, physics, pseudoscience, quantum physics, the universe, theism, vedic philosophy
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Quote of the Day
Henry David Thoreau: Let us settle ourselves, and work, and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe, through Paris and London, through … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, atheist, cathedral, God, Henry David Thoreau, nature, philosophy, the universe, truth
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Where are We? (And Why I’m an Agnostic)
In asking, existentially, where we are, I think that there are two great facts and three great questions: It appears that we live within a paradox—a universe that made itself or has always existed. It also appears that the universe consists … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, atheist, existentialism, Genesis, naturalism, philosophy, religion, richard rorty, Sartre, the universe
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The Ontological Mystery (the Mystery of Being) Represented in Film
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Tagged America, american beauty, beauty, existence, God, life, love, meaning, mystery, the ontological mystery, the universe
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James Jeans and John Updike: A Scientist’s Postulation and a Literary Figure’s Reply
In 1930, physicist, mathematician, and astronomer James Jeans, wrote, in his book The Mysterious Universe, this: Standing on our microscopic fragment of a grain of sand, we attempt to discover the nature and purpose of the universe which surrounds our home … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, existentialism, gnosticism, james jeans, john updike, life, ontological mystery, philosophy, religion, science, space, the universe
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Pretty Good Reasons Not to Believe in God Watch: God’s Apparent Dilly Dallying in Getting Us Here
As an agnostic, I would offer the following as a pretty good reason not to believe that God exists, and for being an atheist (were I so inclined): If God exists, and if one of God’s chief purposes for creating the … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, creation, God, philosophy, psychology, religion, the universe, theism
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Prometheus Unbound 