Category: Multiverse
A video challenge to the evolutionary materialist world-picture that is often presented in the name of big-S Science
| January 15, 2013 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Multiverse, Popular culture, Science, science education, Science, worldview issues and society, Video |
Our indefatigable Bornagain 77 has provided a link to a video documentary, The Signs: embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt (NB: Cf. notices at the linked. Of course, this is a challenge, showing it is not tantamount to endorsing everything claimed therein — such as, some claims on the Golden Ratio. {Added, 01:16: At the 1 hr… more
Christian physicist argues against fine tuning of the universe
| August 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
In favour of the multiverse. Something you don’t see every day. more
CalTech theoretical physicist Sean Carroll defends multiverse at TED talk
| June 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
“Fascinating to watch him circle around the issue of design without ever mentioning it.” more
The multiverse: Just an excuse to sell books now?
| May 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
We had no idea it was that bad. We thought their hat had way more rabbits in it. more
Multiverse proponent Brian Greene on the state of the evidence
| May 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
“As of today, we are far from crossing this threshold. ” more
Atheists as an official opposition party?
| May 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, News |
“His position amounts to saying that speculation can be given equal weight to fact; not an uncommon view in multiverse cosmology.” more
Multiverse proponent laments loss of government funding for Big Science. Why?
| April 23, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
What Weinberg is describing here is not an adventure; it is an elite tyranny. more
Big news at Scientific American: Quantum gravity stories that steer clear of the multiverse (“and other pseudoscience”)
| April 17, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
Maybe being a crackpot isn’t as cool as it used to be? Or is that too much to hope for? more
One of the many creative ways April Fool’s Day can be celebrated: Promoting the multiverse
| April 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
“Then there’s the Los Angeles Times, which used the date to publish a piece by Lawrence Krauss entitled A Universe Without Purpose.” more
Is the Templeton Foundation going to be the new NASA? The multiverse vs. space exploration?
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Multiverse, News |
In that case, we don’t go out and explore any more; we stay home and theorize? more
See, there was this multiverse …
| March 14, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
But it’s actually worse than that. You would discover that awful truth an infinite number of times. more
Peter Woit on the multiverse as a weapon against religion: “a lousy one and not going to convince anyone”
| February 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News, Science |
Well, if God exists, science follows, but if there are truly no laws, science doesn’t follow. more
A multiverse of multiverses: If everything can be true, nothing is
| January 27, 2012 | Posted by O'Leary under Multiverse |
In a real world, some series can be infinite regresses, but others are not. more
Shame on our lack of faith: Here’s potential proof of the multiverse …
| January 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Multiverse, News |
… or maybe as good as proof gets in these matters. more
History of science: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) – martyr to the multiverse?
| November 8, 2011 | Posted by News under Multiverse, News |
“Scientists such as Galileo and Johannes Kepler were not sympathetic to Bruno in their writings.” more
String theory, not supported by evidence, posits extra dimensions … and therefore demonstrates them?
| October 2, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, News |
Peter Woit: “hep-ph is chock-a-block with papers purporting to explain the OPERA results, using theoretical models of varying degrees of absurdity.” more
The Effect of Infinite Probabilistic Resources on ID and Science (Part 1)
| July 25, 2011 | Posted by Eric Holloway under Design inference, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse, Physics |
If the infinite universe critique holds, then not only does it undermine ID, but every huckster, conman, and scam artist will have a field day. more
In a Darwinian multiverse, Eugene Koonin could be both right and wrong an infinite number of times
| July 15, 2011 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Evolutionary biology, Multiverse |
In “The origin and early evolution of eukaryotes in the light of phylogenomics” (Genome Biology 2010, 11:209 ) Eugene V Koonin argues for endosymbiosis (organisms ingest other organisms, but the latter remain alive and provide a new function for the whole) to explain eukaryotes (complex cells, not bacteria): Phylogenomics of eukaryote supergroups suggest a highly… more
Martin Rees wins Templeton Prize
| April 6, 2011 | Posted by DLH under Books of interest, Cosmology, Culture, Design inference, Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics, Religion, Science, Society |
A fine tuning and multiverse advocate, Martin J. Rees, today won the 2011 Templeton Prize. The astrophysicist with no religion won the Prize originally “for Progress in Religion.” The 2011 Templeton Prize was announced today. LONDON, APRIL 6 – Martin J. Rees, a theoretical astrophysicist whose profound insights on the cosmos have provoked vital questions… more
The Nature of Nature — sticky
| April 2, 2011 | Posted by William Dembski under Biology, Culture, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary psychology, Informatics, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind, Multiverse, Natural selection, Neuroscience, Origin Of Life, Philosophy, Physics, Science |
THE NATURE OF NATURE is now finally out and widely available. If you haven’t bought it yet, let me suggest Amazon.com, which is selling it for $17.94, which is an incredible deal for a 7″x10″ 1000-page book with, for most of us, no tax and no shipping charge (it costs over $10 to ship this… more