Category: Multiverse
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
The Unspoken Terror of Scientism
| February 22, 2011 | Posted by nullasalus under Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Philosophy, Science |
A discussion of the designer versus multiverse debate, and speculations on what motivates the treatment of multiverses as science rather than philosophy. more
Einstein’s relativity predicts multiple and varied universes?
| February 14, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Multiverse |
One group that isn’t going along with John “end of science” Horgan’s “immoral” rap about multiverse theorizing is the Templeton Foundation. A friend sends me this excerpt from a recent newsletter (which I can’t currently find online): Meanwhile, Cambridge University cosmologist and JTF Trustee John D. Barrow has just published the UK version of his… more
If you don’t think there are infinitely many universes out there, you are mere Popperazi?
| February 13, 2011 | Posted by O'Leary under Multiverse |
John Horgan, who took it on the ear some years ago for prophesying the end of science, now asks, provocatively I suppose, whether theorizing about alternative universes is immoral: These multiverse theories all share the same fundamental defect: They can be neither confirmed nor falsified. Hence, they don’t deserve to be called scientific, according to… more
Naturalism is a priori evolutionary materialism, so it both begs the question and self-refutes
| October 19, 2010 | Posted by kairosfocus under Atheism, Darwinism, Design inference, Education, Evolution, Intellectual freedom, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Philosophy, Science |
The thesis expressed in the title of this “opening bat” post is plainly controversial, and doubtless will be hotly contested and/or pointedly ignored. However, when all is said and done, it will be quite evident that it has the merit that it just happens to be both true and well-warranted. So, let us begin. Noted… more
Multiverse: Recent studies suggest that some alternative universes “may not be so inhospitable” – assuming they exist
| October 17, 2010 | Posted by O'Leary under Cosmology, FIne tuning, Multiverse |
Well, the supernatural may be “outside the scope of science,” but universes whose existence is not demonstrated, which are imagined principally to get out of a jam with the evidence from this universe, are reasonably doubted, despite thought experiments. The tentative tone here is well justified. It should be used more often. more