Then there is the phrase "The God of the Gaps"™. In any long discussion on "Science and Religion", this phrase must eventually be deployed by one or the other party, either by the skeptic (with a triumphal tone as of … Continue reading
Recently, Sean Carroll (cosmologist and atheist, whom I have met a couple times at physics events) and St. William Lane Craig (philosopher and Christian apologist) had a debate about this topic: "God and Cosmology: The Existence of God in Light … Continue reading
A couple posts elsewhere refuting a common Medieval-bashing trope, that the Medieval Church tried to suppress scientific ideas, in a series of mythical conflicts between Science and Religion, by historian of Science St. James Hannam. On the same site, Tim … Continue reading
This finished a bit too late to get into the previous collection of Random Stuff, so it gets to be its own post. A long but fascinating saga by St. Michael Flynn on the topic of what actually went down … Continue reading
Today I went to a talk by Lawrence Krauss entitled “A Universe from Nothing”, which had the following abstract: The question, "Why is there something rather than nothing?" has been asked for millenia by people who speculate on the need … Continue reading
