Category: Physics, Earth & Space
What Is Matter? The Materialist Perspective
Materialism isn’t really a metaphysical theory. It’s just a mistake. It’s a woefully inadequate understanding of nature.
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.”
Astronomer Builds System with 416 Potentially Habitable Planets – In His Mind
We have Trojan asteroids in our Solar System that orbit with Jupiter. But, there isn’t any evidence of actual Trojan planets.
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.
Bubble Universes, Inflationary Cosmology, and Infinitesimal Odds
How many ways will naturalists find to evade the implications of cosmic fine tuning?
Brian Josephson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Is “80 Percent” Confident in Intelligent Design
“I believe that intelligence may play a role in how evolution has occurred.”
Tornadoes, Ice, and Cells: The Challenge from Thermodynamics to Origin-of-Life Scenarios
This is a subject on which materialists are largely silent, and with good reason.
Stephen Hawking: Off the Planet, to the Moon, in 200-500 Years
I am struck by the similarities between Hawking’s call for space exploration and the wailing and gnashing of teeth about the Paris climate accords.
Thermodynamics of the Origin of Life
Popular articles on origin-of-life research often portray the field as constantly advancing and quickly converging on a purely materialistic explanation for the first cell.
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.