Yesterday Ron Rosenbaum aggressively attacked atheism and defended agnosticism in Slate. He starts out with the familiar charge that atheists have “faith”. But faith in what? Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain how and why the [...]
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All have faith (subjective certainty, to varying degrees below absolute... - pete: Outstanding reasoned analysis. I try to talk about the same things with my writing but you are much more...
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Category Archives: Physics
Rejecting The Question, “Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?”
June 28, 2010 – 7:26 pmPZ Myers calls attention today to a post from Sean Carroll from a couple of years ago, which reminds me in part of some of my own thinking about the confusion in the question of “why there is something rather than nothing?”. I had a Thomist philosophy professor who impressed upon me that for Aquinas [...]
Stephen Hawking: Science Will Win Against Religion
June 8, 2010 – 4:40 amIn writing: When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he’d like solved, he said, “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.” “What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most [...]
Mr. Deity Tries To Find Time To Make Time
February 8, 2010 – 11:01 pmI don’t know if I’ve seen such a well-scripted bit of comdy about metaphysics and cosmology before: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ujpzdeolA&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Does Thermodynamics Prove The Existence Of God?
January 6, 2010 – 4:04 pmOzmoroid both hilariously and scientifically refutes a video which claims it does… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLk1Yx2OrVI&hl=en_US&fs=1&] Your Thoughts?
Does Quantum Mechanics Prove The Existence Of God
January 3, 2010 – 3:03 pmOne YouTuber claims it does and this highly informed video both presents and refutes his claims most educationally and, in the last half, hilariously: Your Thoughts?
Dawkins On The Anthropic Principle
October 30, 2009 – 12:49 pmInteresting remarks on the possible implications of Darwinian thinking for thinking in physics. Is it possible that there is natural selection among many universes? Watch Dawkins’s entire talk from which this clips comes: Your Thoughts?
Confirming Galileo: Hammer Vs. Feather On The Moon
September 29, 2009 – 4:16 pmWell, you know which one this website’s going to be pulling for: From the YouTube information listings: WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com On the surface of the Moon at Hadley Rille Apollo 15 Commander David Scott verifies Galileo’s discovery that all objects in gravity fields fall at the same speed. (via) Your Thoughts?
Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error
September 19, 2009 – 5:09 pmdjarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?
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