Tag: Institute for Advanced Study
Science, Faith, and Einstein
Einstein’s dictum about thinking for yourself therefore holds for faith as much as for science. It must come before commitment and obedience.
Incompleteness Theorems Point to a Hidden Realm
A “hidden realm” behind the common-sense realm of “local realism” — this is the actual nature of the reality in which we live.
Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul
Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin.
“Miraculously” Fine-Tuned Universe? Evidence from the Large Hadron Collider
The continued spookiness of the fine-tuning of the interactions in the universe is a constant threat to materialism.
Freeman Dyson: The Passing of an Iconoclastic Physicist
Dyson was careful to take an open-minded approach: not fully endorsing design, yet not rejecting it either.