See also: Carl Sagan on the topic (a must watch), Hitchens, Hawking – Did God Create the Universe? (a must watch), BBC Horizon – What happened before the big bang?, BBC Nothing (a must watch) and ‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss (a must watch). “Some would ask,...
This way I can always say when my time’s up: “I tried, I did everything I possibly could do to attain wealth, freedom and happiness… I gave it all I had.” This way, if I was to fail, I could hold my head high and turn to the fellow residents waiting for God in the reti...
to financial gain. Einstein was troubled by the fact that a capitalist society fueled by uncontrolled competition results in the value of labor being wasted away, leading to a nation’s economic turmoil. He said that the economic chaos generated by the capitalist system is the cause of evil. ...
things do in fact behave, and being a mere description of what they in fact do, you cannot argue that there must be somebody who told them to do that, because even supposing that there were, you are then faced with the question Why did God issue just those natural laws and no others...
Right now, we know about as much about the mechanisms of the mind as we did of the body just prior to Leonardo da Vinci. But ignorance is not our birthright, so let's get to carving: Existence happens across three great realms. These realms are self-similar, which means that their ...
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Yep, this definitely smells like backstory, “We both know the board drove her out, though other reasons were made public. Can’t believe she has the nerve to stick around after what she did.” Still, the next few sentences don’t. I liked the creative way you did this, Steph. Back...
Did the vindication of the conservation of energy also vindicate Leibniz’s argument against interactionism? At least sociologically it seemed to do so: the Leibnizian argument reasoning played a role in psychology from the nineteenth century onwards (Marshall1982; Daston1982; Heidelberger2004; Wegener...
then you go through the world and look for these problems and solve them. That’s how Einstein found the equations for Brownian motion; how he came up with his theories of relativity; how Planck solved blackbody radiation and thus initiated the quantum theory of matter. They had a good inst...
So if God can’t get it right, neither can we. On a social design level, there’s something to be said for God’s model: maybe we should deliberately create a society that molds brave, good people by forcing them to confront evil and foolishness. Perhaps we improve on God’s idea ...