Must Science be Falsifiable?
There's a common notion floating around, due to Karl Popper, that scientific theories are characterized by the fact that they are falsifiable. The idea is that it is never possible to verify a...
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Reasonable Unfalsifiable Beliefs
In a previous post, I argued that falsifiability is not the be-all and end-all of Science. There are valid scientific beliefs that are not falsifiable. However, there is something to the idea that...
View ArticleSeparation of Physics and Theology?
Down in the comments section of this post, reader St. TY has the following kind thing to say about me: What an excellent blog. I have been looking for one like this for a long time. I tell what I like...
View ArticleDifferent Views about Time
Updated to ask readers more directly for their thoughts, if you have any... A random thought. Suppose we ask whether the world has a Beginning or an End, or whether it is eternal is one or both...
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Models and Metaphysics
In my previous posts about the Carroll-Craig debate, I've been skirting around the edges of an important claim by Carroll which summarizes the main reason he doesn't buy the Cosmological Argument....
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Explanation needed
I've been discussing Sean Carroll's claim that: The demand for more than a complete and consistent model that fits the data is a relic of a pre-scientific view of the world. My claim is that if you had...
View ArticleConstruct your own Cosmological Argument
First read this piece by St. Feser: So you think you understand the Cosmological Argument? about the traditional structure of Cosmological Arguments, rebutting several popular misconceptions. Now take...
View ArticlePhysics culture and theistic cosmology models
A reader asks this question, testing the boundaries between physics culture and religious belief: How hostile do you think a learning institution would be to someone in their Physics department looking...
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Theology: Less Speculative than Quantum Gravity
A reader, Martin B, asked me a question in response to my review of Krauss' talk on “A Universe from Nothing”. I had written: "Atheists such as Krauss scorn theology as being completely non-empirical....
View ArticleSaving Energy Conservation
There's an interesting conversation on Energy Conservation going on under my post about how The Universe can't `Just Exist'. I wrote a reply in that thread which I've decided to turn into a main post....
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