In my previous posts about the Carroll-Craig debate, I've been skirting around the edges of an important claim by Carroll which summarizes the main reason he doesn't buy the Cosmological Argument. That's because I was focusing on the question of … Continue reading
Updated to ask readers more directly for their thoughts, if you have any... A random thought. Suppose we ask whether the world has a Beginning or an End, or whether it is eternal is one or both directions. It seems … Continue reading
Down in the comments section of this post, reader St. TY has the following kind thing to say about me: What an excellent blog. I have been looking for one like this for a long time. I tell what I … Continue reading
In a previous post, I argued that falsifiability is not the be-all and end-all of Science. There are valid scientific beliefs that are not falsifiable. However, there is something to the idea that beliefs should be falsifiable. One way to … Continue reading
There's a common notion floating around, due to Karl Popper, that scientific theories are characterized by the fact that they are falsifiable. The idea is that it is never possible to verify a scientific theory (i.e. the sun always comes … Continue reading
