Category: Cosmology
Atheists want to banish the Big Bang because it promotes theism—a romp through the history
| May 19, 2013 | Posted by News under Cosmology |
Atheists are just as likely as anyone to resist research findings that challenge their views. Here’s the romp in four short posts. more
What qualifies as science in the wonderful world of Disney
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by scordova under Cosmology, Humor, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science |
The scientific enterprise entails: 1. observation 2. hypothesis 3. testing Consider this passage from the class text of an introductory cosmology class I took once upon a time: galaxies farther than 4300 megaparsecs from us are currently moving away from us at speeds greater than that of light. Cosmological innocents sometimes exclaim, “Gosh! Doesn’t this… more
On pulling a cosmos out of a non-existent hat . . .
| May 12, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, ID Foundations, language, Logic and First Principles of right reason, Philosophy, Physics |
This morning, CH has by implication raised the issue that has been hotly debated recently: getting a cosmos out of “nothing.” I thought it would be helpful to headline my comment: ______________ >> . . . “Something from nothing” is always problematic. Now, I know I know, here is Ethan Siegel of Science Blogs in… more
Design, Teleology and Omega Watches
| April 24, 2013 | Posted by DonaldM under Cosmology, Design inference, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Philosophy |
The Omega watch company’s co-axial chronometer is billed as the most precise mechanical device in the world. In their video ad featured here, the images associate the intricate design of the cosmos with the design of the watch…a classic teleological argument. The implication seems to be that the intricate, superb design of the watch is… more
When does the Programmer install the software?
| March 7, 2013 | Posted by niwrad under Cosmology, Creationism, Informatics, Intelligent Design, Religion |
A thing that evolutionists wrongly consider a serious problem for the creation/ID worldview is the “multiple acts of creation” or – in ID terms – “multiple insertions of information” in time. Here I will argue to show that this is a false problem, or – better said – is a problem that in no way… more
VIDEO: Dr Guillermo Gonzalez surveys and briefly, simply explains several fine tuning cases behind the cosmological design inference
| February 24, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Fine tuning, ID Foundations, Video |
Dr Gonzalez — the Astrophysicist half of the Privileged Planet team — recently presented this lecture in which he surveys and briefly, simply explains several key fine tuning cases: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Again, useful food for thought. END PS: For more on fine tuning, cf VJT’s recent post on a new form of… more
Movie night: Jay Richards on Signs of Design from Physics and Astronomy
| January 6, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
Here: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt while there is a rather long run-up that includes defining sci and ID, note especially 32:20 on. What do you think? END more
Wiki’s F – - on ID, 2: Wiki’s ideologically driven corruption of the definitions of science and its methods
| January 2, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Cosmology, Creationism, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Education, Evolution, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Media, science education, Science, worldview issues and society |
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As we continue to mark up the Wiki article on ID, the next thing to notice is how the anonymous contributors have projected unto ID, an accusation of trying to redefine science and its methods in service to supernaturalistic creationism: Intelligent design (ID) is a form of creationism promulgated by the Discovery Institute . .… more
He said it: Impact of Americans’ waning interest in fundamental physics research
| October 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News, Physics |
“But the fact that the United States has not provided an equivalent machine to check CERN’s results—or even to have beaten them to the punch—is discouraging.” more
John Lennox replies to Larry Krauss’s claim that Higgs boson “arguably more relevant than God”
| August 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“The internal combustion engine is arguably more relevant than Henry Ford to the question of how a car works, but not for why it exists in the first place.” more
Hot weather universe theory: Quantum graphity
| August 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“”Think of the early universe as being like a liquid,” he said. … ” more
ID as ‘Science of God’ (aka Theology)
| August 6, 2012 | Posted by Steve Fuller under Cosmology, Culture, Darwinism, Ethics, Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Science, Science, worldview issues and society |
A piece of mine has been just published in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC’s) excellent Religion and Ethics website. It provides a larger context for my own theologically positive approach to ID, which I realize is not everyone’s cup of tea. However, like Gregory Sandstrom, I welcome johnnyb’s intervention, which raises the issue of which… more
String theorists get $3 million each from wealthy Russian
| August 2, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“What this does is turn the Nobel Prize on its head; you get it for doing work that is untestable or wrong, but that has a high profile” more
Pop cosmology: Believing in Nothing instead of God
| July 26, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“Pure nothingness: It’s the last unspoiled, uncluttered concept in the cosmos.” more
What if the Higgs boson exists … but dark matter doesn’t?
| July 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“If WIMPs don’t show up soon, though, it may be a sign that physicists are simply on the wrong track.” more
Evidence for an Engineered Universe
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Cell biology, Cosmology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Physics, Science, Video |
In the next video for the Engineering and Metaphysics conference, we have our keynote speaker, Walter Bradley, author of The Mystery of Life’s Origin (the book which kicked off the Intelligent Design movement). Here Bradley presents an overview of the cosmological case for design. Lots of interesting information from the man who started it all!… more
NASA’s most spectacular night view of Earth ever
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
Courtesy Jesus Diaz at Gizmodo more
Peter Woit warns Michael Shermer not to discredit atheism over multiverse
| July 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Cosmology, News |
““I’m as much of an atheist as anyone, and I’m really disturbed to see arguments being made that are going to end up … ” more
John Horgan: Finding the Higgs “doesn’t take us any closer to a unified theory … “
| July 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, News |
“… than climbing a tree would take me to the Moon. ” more
On nothing at all
| July 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, News |
” I would venture a guess that it has been ‘something’ far longer than it has been “nothing … ” more