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Bernard Carr

St-thomas-aquinas
Image credit: Carlo Crivelli, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Intelligent Design and Aquinas’ Fifth Way

Saint Thomas did not have examples of specified complexity as in molecular biology, but it is possible to find a text that suggests he would favor of ID. Read More ›
Steven Weinberg
Photo: Steven Weinberg (third from left) with Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, by Croes, Rob C. / Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0 NL <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Farewell to Steven Weinberg, Visionary Physicist Who Appealed to the Multiverse

A sad note in Weinberg’s life was that his philosophical framework prevented him from seeing the design behind the physics he studied. Read More ›
Ghost Nebula
Ghost Nebula
Photo: Ghost Nebula, by NASA, ESA, and STScI/Acknowledgment: H. Arab (University of Strasbourg).

Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder Challenges the Evidence for Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Hossenfelder’s strongest argument is that many fine-tuning parameters cannot in fact be quantified. Read More ›
science as fantasy
Image: Midsummer Eve, 1908, by Edward Robert Hughes [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

On Fantasy in Modern Science

An attribute of a good sci-fi story is that it should open new vistas for the imagination while, at the same time, not requiring the reader to put up with the preposterous. Read More ›

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