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Denyse O'Leary
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March 2, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why the multiverse is just a way of evading reality

Denyse O'Leary
March 2, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Michael Egnor: The fact that the universe is tuned — that is, the fact there is any consistency at all in the laws of physics — demonstrates God’s existence. This is Aquinas’ Fifth Way, which is the proof from design. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Multiverse
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Michael Egnor on why we don’t live in a multiverse

Denyse O'Leary
February 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Multiverse
Egnor: The problem is, to make their claim credible, [Novella and Goff] must show that there actually are localities in the universe in which the laws of physics differ in a way that would make fine tuning likely by chance. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 2, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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Peter Woit, whom we sometimes follow because he is fun, looks back on string theory

Denyse O'Leary
January 2, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
He doesn’t seem to get the fact that string theory was a religious movement that was bound to end badly. The most distressing victim is science. But then that was well before the war on math, wasn’t it? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
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At Quanta: Are we looking at the end of physics?

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Physics
Ah yes, the problem of dead-endedness that Sabine Hossenfelder often writes about. As does Columbia mathematician Peter Woit, on the subject of string theory. But surely much of the nonsense around string theory and the multiverse is in part due to a practical failure—the inability to find even a single particle of dark matter or similar evidence for dark energy. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 26, 2020
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Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
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Wintery Knight: Does the multiverse counter the fine-tuning argument for God’s existence?

Denyse O'Leary
July 26, 2020
Fine tuning, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, theism
Knight: The multiverse is not pure nonsense, it is theoretically possible.But even if there were a multiverse, the generator that makes the universes itself would require fine-tuning, so the multiverse doesn’t get rid of the problem. And, as Lightman indicates, we have no independent experimental evidence for the existence of the multiverse in any case. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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July 24, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
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Multiverse physicist Max Tegmark switches gears; seeks AI to combat “news bias”

Denyse O'Leary
July 24, 2020
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Media, Multiverse
Readers may recall him from the four levels of multiverse he advocated in Scientific American in 2003. But forget that. He now thinks there is too much bias in American media and he is working on an AI program to combat it Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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June 4, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse
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Robert J. Marks on why there cannot be an infinite number of universes

Denyse O'Leary
June 4, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Multiverse

The Big Bang Theory sitcom’s Sheldon Cooper insists that in no universe would he dance with Penny. That mighrt be true, says Marks but there still isn’t an infinite number of universes: But, some claim, there is an infinite number of universes in the multiverse. That is ludicrous because there are no infinities in the physical world. Even if there were, Cantor’s theory of the infinite shows that, if there were an infinite number of contingencies, not all contingency combinations could be accounted for by an infinite number of universes. Therefore, even if there is an infinite number of universes with an infinite number of contingencies, then—among an infinite number of Sheldons—it’s possible that none of the Sheldons dance. Robert Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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January 26, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism
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Trinity Radio on cosmologist Sean Carroll and ignoring reality

Denyse O'Leary
January 26, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Multiverse, Naturalism
But doesn’t a multiverse cosmologist like Sean Carroll get to pick and choose the reality he prefers from an infinite variety? Who says there is only one reality, the one he doesn't like? Read More ›