On Design: Hawking, Paley & Chopra
Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, is generating a fair amount of press because of his claim that the laws of physics explain the Big Bang and remove the need for a Prime Mover. God in the...
View ArticleHawking’s Horrid Philosophy
Our correspondent at The Economist dismisses Stephen Hawking’s most recent dispensation with characteristic British aplomb. Strongly suggesting that Hawking should keep the meta out of his physics,...
View ArticleUniverse Permeated with “Original Sin”?
Physicists having difficulty with the elusive Higgs boson and mysterious dark matter may wish to look for an alternative explanation: the effect that Adam and Eve’s original sin had on the universe....
View ArticleAntimatter & The Antichrist
The recent creation and capture of antimatter by scientists at the CERN Hadron Collider may not have any immediate practical implications, but it is the coolest thing in physics in quite some time. And...
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Beautiful Objectivity
Old Aristotleian habits die hard and the human penchant for bifurcating or othering is alive and well. In this handy primer on the distinctions between analytic and continental philosophy, we learn...
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Infinite Regress of Turtles
In this post on the overconfidence of evangelical atheism, we saw a physicist-philosopher taking serious issue with Lawrence Krauss’ triumphal tome which purports to explain how the universe came from...
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Invisible Orders & Theory
When we think about invisible entities or forces and use them to explain events, we are theorizing. We are postulating, in other words, an underlying or overarching order which can account for change...
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Scientific Metaphysics & Uncertainty
There is, among a certain group of scientists, a shrill certitude about science which leads to overconfident proclamations on matters of philosophy (and by extension, religion). It is therefore...
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