Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an end, this does not mean apocalyptic visions of the end of the world were on… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true enough, but not really a positive argument. After mechanistic explanation became popular, infidels… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course,… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation.… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum… — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works. — Taner Edis Copy Share Image
