“The 2012 budget request for NASA paints a far less rosy picture of the next 5 years, and the outcome for 2013 is expected to be even worse.”
Fine tuning
Why the ID community maybe SHOULD celebrate Carl Sagan day …
Sagan played a key role in establishing that the “science” of popular media is mostly bunk directed at supporting atheism and that any evidence-based assessment of life in our cosmos is the province of “religion.”
Water is just another of those things in our randomly mutated universe, right? But wait, read this …
In a non-Darwin world, would media releases discussing this stuff keep using the term “weird?” Why is it weird?
New Scientist talks about “fine-tuned for life”
Really! But banana palms still don’t grow in Toronto.
ID Foundations, 6: Introducing* the cosmological design inference
ID 101/Foundations, 6: Introducing and explaining the cosmological design inference on fine tuning, with onward reference links (including on Stenger’s attempted rebuttals)
Martin Rees wins Templeton Prize
A fine tuning and multiverse advocate, Martin J. Rees, today won the 2011 Templeton Prize. The astrophysicist with no religion won the Prize originally “for Progress in Religion.” The 2011 Templeton Prize was announced today. LONDON, APRIL 6 – Martin J. Rees, a theoretical astrophysicist whose profound insights on the cosmos have provoked vital questions Read More…
Multiverse: Recent studies suggest that some alternative universes “may not be so inhospitable” – assuming they exist
Well, the supernatural may be “outside the scope of science,” but universes whose existence is not demonstrated, which are imagined principally to get out of a jam with the evidence from this universe, are reasonably doubted, despite thought experiments. The tentative tone here is well justified. It should be used more often.
Bruce Gordon’s Article on Stephen Hawking
In a recent Washington Times article, written by the Discovery Institute’s polymath Bruce Gordon, Gordon discusses the soundness of Stephen Hawking’s argument made recently which states that the universe could have been brought into existence merely by the laws of nature. Stephen Hawking‘s new book, “The Grand Design,” co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow, contends that God Read More…