Tag: Steven Weinberg
Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize
A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford’s Richard Dawkins and MIT’s Rosalind Picard.
Physicists Want to Put Cosmic Design to the Test
Their thesis is based on cosmic inflation theory and on the behavior of dark matter.
What Science Owes to Faith, Hope, and Love
It’s a stretch to say that our ability to do realist science arose from a mindless process of evolution.
My Dinner with Steven and Louise Weinberg
Weinberg was holding court, going on about how much he knew about the origin of the universe and how atheism was the only intellectually viable option.
Are Humans Progressing Toward Evolutionary Perfection?
Men are not about to become like gods. “I’m a strong believer in original sin,” quips David Berlinski.