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Thursday, July 18, 2019

The Universe Is Math

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Physicist Sir James Jeans, contemplating the fact that the universe seems so astonishingly conformable to mathematics, once remarked that Go...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Is Trump a Racist?

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There's been a lot of silliness surrounding the infamous tweet storm unleashed by our president in recent days critical of the four Demo...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Six Impossible Things

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In Lewis Carroll's classic Through the Looking Glass Alice is chided by the Queen for her inability to believe that the Queen is over a...
Monday, July 15, 2019

The Venus Flytrap

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One of the perplexities of modern evolutionary theory is how structures, systems, and abilities evolved that are completely superfluous to a...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

The Multiverse Religion

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Sabine Hossenfelder is a physicist, cosmologist and non-theist. This latter point is relevant because in the short video below she criticize...
Friday, July 12, 2019

The Cosmos as God

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The late atheist astronomer Carl Sagan was famous for his declaration in the opening line of his 1980 book Cosmos (on which the television s...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Wittgenstein's Poker

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Almost seventy three years ago, in October of 1946, a group of highly accomplished philosophers and intellectuals gathered in a room at King...
Wednesday, July 10, 2019

Our Amazing Eyes

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For about the last century or so Darwinian naturalists have cited the eye's design as evidence against the existence of an intelligent ...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019

The Knife-Edge

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In the 1991 movie City Slickers Billy Crystal played a bored-with-life salesman whose son's school was hosting a day in which fathers c...
Monday, July 8, 2019

Crimes and Misdemeanors

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Here are a couple of questions for anyone who embraces a naturalistic worldview and also believes that there's an objective right and wr...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

The Singularity Is a Supernatural Being

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Mathematician, physicist and cosmologist Frank Tipler is one of the most accomplished scientists in his field. Together with John Barrow he ...
Friday, July 5, 2019

The Moral Landscape

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A former student and VP reader wrote to ask me my opinion of a TED Talk given by philosopher Sam Harris around his book titled The Moral Lan...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Celebrating the Fourth of July

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Today many Americans will celebrate their Independence Day, the day set aside to commemorate the signing of our Declaration of Independence ...
Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Science Uprising, Episode 5

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One of the biggest science stories we rarely hear about is how with almost every discovery the Darwinian model of evolution looks weaker rat...
Tuesday, July 2, 2019

Just Talking Nonsense

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There's an odd and contradictory juxtaposition of opinions currently manifesting itself among contemporary progressives. On one hand, pr...
Monday, July 1, 2019

Gratuitous Beauty

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One characteristic of living things that has thrilled everyone who has ever considered it is the astonishing level of beauty they exhibit. C...
Saturday, June 29, 2019

How Is it That We Exist?

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A brief but provocative piece at Aeon raises a perplexing question about the structure of the universe and our existence in it: In 1928, t...
Friday, June 28, 2019

Socialism Didn't Work in Sweden

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According to an article at The Federalist the conventional wisdom, which holds that Sweden is a socialist success story, is simply false. ...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

It's Even Happening at Science

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It's pretty clear that big social media platforms are making a concerted effort to stifle conservative opinion. The recent news about ...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Materialists and Madmen

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G.K. Chesterton, observes in his book Orthodoxy , that "The materialist has the fantastic outline of the figure of a madman. Both take ...