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Oxford’s John Lennox on Stephen Hawking’s “Grand Design”

The time for eulogies is now, but that time will pass. Read More ›
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Farewell, Stephen Hawking

Recently, there was the increasing sense that he was being exploited by the media for his brilliant reputation. Read More ›
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Masters of Physics in the Living World

Plants and animals display proficiency in dynamics — the physics of movement. Read More ›
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The Universe Reflects a Mind

Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›
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The Second Law Argument: A Timeline

“Remove the sun,” wrote Isaac Asimov, “and the human brain would not have developed.” Read More ›
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning and the Problem of Evil

"Cosmopsychism might seem crazy," says philosopher Phillip Goff, "but it provides a robust explanatory model for how the universe became fine-tuned for life." Read More ›
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The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›
Self-Refutation

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›

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