Taner Edis

Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed,…

— Taner Edis

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There…

— Taner Edis

In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously…

— Taner Edis

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

— Taner Edis

Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists-- especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well.…

— Taner Edis

To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

— Taner Edis

Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming…

— Taner Edis

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

— Taner Edis

When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of…

— Taner Edis

Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even…

— Taner Edis

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

— Taner Edis