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Showing posts with label cosmology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cosmology. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 October 2016
Friday, 12 August 2016
Tuesday, 26 July 2016
Tuesday, 19 July 2016
Estranged Notions: Why Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture” Is Too Small
Today's post:
Why Sean Carroll’s “The Big Picture” Is Too Small
Vogt has been promising us his review of Carroll's book for some weeks now, but this is merely an ‘introduction’ to the review; nothing of substance here. The closest Vogt gets to that is the usual knee-jerk criticism of reductionism.
Tuesday, 12 July 2016
Estranged Notions: 5 Reasons Why the Universe Can’t Be Merely a Brute Fact
Today's post:
5 Reasons Why the Universe Can’t Be Merely a Brute Fact
As usual, the proponents of the PSR find themselves making unjustified claims for the very basic reason that they have no valid criterion for defining what an ‘explanation’ is.
Tuesday, 28 June 2016
Estranged Notions: Answering Stephen Colbert’s Favorite Atheist Physicist
Today's post:
Answering Stephen Colbert’s Favorite Atheist Physicist
Horn responds, not to Carroll's book, but to an interview on Salon.
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Friday, 18 September 2015
Estranged Notions: Is God Too Complex To Be The Creator?
Today's post:
Is God Too Complex To Be The Creator?
This is just the old canard about ‘divine simplicity’. Unfortunately, these days we have better definitions of simplicity, and handwaving by defining God as a mind with no parts is no longer a believable approach.
(Also, it's worth noting that the idea of an absolute beginning to the universe is if anything less strongly supported now than in the past; the latest results are consistent with theories of eternal inflation—which, contra some apologetic claims, are not ruled out by the BGV theorem, and indeed Guth (the G of BGV) is on record as regarding eternal inflation as the most likely result.)
Monday, 27 July 2015
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
Estranged Notions: Is there Life Elsewhere in the Cosmos?
Today's post:
Is there Life Elsewhere in the Cosmos?
This article seems to have no bearing on the usual topics of discussion at all.
Monday, 16 March 2015
Estranged Notions: Why Something Rather than Nothing?
Today's post:
Why Something Rather than Nothing?
Drivel recycled to shill another book, using the same argument regarding the fallacy of composition that we saw from Feser and refuted long ago.
Friday, 7 November 2014
Estranged Notions: Would You Baptize Aliens? An Interview with Two Vatican Astronomers
Today's post, a remarkably useless attempt at an interview by Vogt:
Would You Baptize Aliens? An Interview with Two Vatican Astronomers
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Estranged Notions: If Everything Requires a Cause, What Caused God?
And today's post is another Feser article, desperately trying to save the cosmological argument:
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Wednesday, 6 August 2014
Estranged Notions: Cosmology and Causation: Why Metaphysics Matters
Thomism day today courtesy of Feser:
Friday, 23 May 2014
Friday, 11 April 2014
Estranged Notions: Why Our Unique Solar System Points to God
Today's post:
Why Our Unique Solar System Points to God
Summary: junk astrophysics from someone with no apparent qualifications in the subject, whose source is Lee Strobel's garbage (and outdated) apologetics rather than real science.
Friday, 21 March 2014
Friday, 14 February 2014
Estranged Notions: Cosmology and Creation: Contrasting Notions
Today's post is the response to Paul Rimmer's:
Thursday, 13 February 2014
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