Author: Denyse O'Leary
The Multiverse Is Science’s Assisted Suicide
Cosmologists sense the problem and strive to rescue their multiverse from the nagging demands for evidence.
Cosmic Inflation Theory Loses Hangups About Scientific Method
Science writer Dennis Overbye calls the inflation controversy a crisis in cosmology. But maybe it is more of a crossroads.
Post-Modern Physics: String Theory Gets Over the Need for Evidence
String theory, which took root in the 1970s, proposes that “all objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy.”
Cosmology Is Naturalism’s Playground. But Does the Fun Mask a Science Decline?
Cosmology has become an art form. Stylish essays are decked out with a very brief skirt of science.
What Becomes of Science When the Evidence Does Not Matter?
Fine-tuning of the universe is so unpleasant a subject for materialists that it cannot really become a controversy.