Disagreeable Me

The Fine-Tuning Problem I've been thinking a lot lately about the problem of fine-tuning and how it may or may not be resolved by appeal...

Max Tegmark A couple of years ago I was reading Anathem by Neal Stephenson and a number of ideas started to click into place for me. W...

The anthropic principle has been much discussed and it is likely that you have already come across it. It's a strange and counter-in...

The great hope of physicists such as Stephen Hawking and Lawrence Krauss is that a deep understanding of physical law will ultimately le...

Here's two apparently unrelated hypotheses for you: 1. The universe contains infinite space and an infinite quantity of stuff. 2. T...

In my previous post, I discussed how Dr. Carrier's argument that the universe could come into existence from nothing is cogent only i...

In my last few posts , I've been highlighting the reasons why I do not agree with Dr. Richard Carrier's argument that the univers...

One of the ways Dr. Richard Carrier defends his contention that time can arise from a state of absolute nothingness is by giving one exampl...

In continuing the discussion of my objection to Richard Carrier's  argument that the universe could arise out of a state of absolute ...

Dr. Richard Carrier has kindly responded to my criticism of his argument with a comment on his blog as well as a number of emails. In t...

One of the most common and most persuasive arguments for the existence of God is the Kalam cosmological argument . William Lane Craig is pe...

I read an interesting blog post by a fellow named Richard Carrier the other day. In it he discusses the common idea that the universe was ...