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Anthropic Principle

NGC-602
Photo credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Zeidler.

Physicists Want to Put Cosmic Design to the Test

Their thesis is based on cosmic inflation theory and on the behavior of dark matter. Read More ›
black hole
Image: An artist imagines a black hole, by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; background, ESA/Gaia/DPAC.

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Read More ›
The Farm at the Center of the Universe
Image source: Discovery Institute Press.

Earth Left “A Path of Tools” to Scientific Discovery

The fine-tunings for scientific discovery and technological progress are very interesting to me and not just because they defeat the anthropic principle. Read More ›
consciousness
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›
Roger Penrose
Photo: Roger Penrose, by Biswarup Ganguly, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

More on Roger Penrose and Fine-Tuning

Penrose offers as an alternative to design only that maybe some very different kind of life might be possible without the fine-tunings we see in our universe. Read More ›
Sagittarius C
Photo credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia).

A Philosopher Rejects the Multiverse but Embraces Mythology

Ascribing sentience or cosmic purpose to forces or the particles on which they act is to step out of the realm of science into the realm of myth-making. Read More ›
Necklace Nebula
Photo: Necklace Nebula, by ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll.

In Summary: Presenting the Evidence for Intelligent Design

Since there were no natural causes before nature came into existence, science cannot ever hope to explain this beginning. That is, if ID is excluded. Read More ›
Star trails from the International Space Station
Photo: Star trails from the International Space Station, by NASA/Don Pettit.

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Read More ›
Charles Darwin, caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871
Image: Charles Darwin caricatured in Vanity Fair. Date: 1871

Darwin’s Category Errors and Their Consequences

Charles Darwin indiscriminately lumped together the organic and inorganic spheres — a grand category error. Read More ›
Physics
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Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Read More ›

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