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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 22, 2022
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon: Maybe black holes don’t really exist. Consider the possibilities.

Denyse O'Leary
March 22, 2022
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Sheldon: "What I sense is that false premises and bad assumptions have been coloring the entire field of Black Holes (and Big Bangs and quasars ) for decades now. Perhaps we should stop patching the creaking model and consider a new one. " News: "Some of us can’t help wondering if the sheer philosophical pizzazz of the black hole keeps it going in its present state. A glamorous theory is bound to have a long run." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2021
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Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
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Michael Egnor: Here’s why an argument for God’s existence is a scientific argument

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2021
Atheism, Intelligent Design, Science, theism
Egnor: [t]he logic pointing to God’s existence is overwhelmingly stronger than the evidence and logic supporting any other scientific theory in nature. Aquinas’s First Way proof of God’s existence, for example, has exactly the same structure as any other scientific theory. The empirical evidence is the presence of change in nature. Because infinite regress is logically impossible in an essentially ordered chain of changes, there must be a Prime Mover to begin the process and that is what we call God. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 7, 2021
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Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Stan Robertson’s paper on black holes is free for download

Denyse O'Leary
April 7, 2021
Cosmology, Culture, Intelligent Design, Physics
One factor that one needn’t be a physicist to see is that black holes became a “thing” in popular culture, in a way that “red dwarfs” and “white dwarfs” never did. No one says that red dwarfs, for example, are a gateway to another universe. That sort of thing may affect people’s willingness to evaluate the evidence base critically. Cf Darwinism. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 6, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon takes aim at black holes: How much is really known?

Denyse O'Leary
April 6, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
It is most unfortunate that both scientists themselves and the popular press discuss black holes (bh) as if they are (a) a scientifically defined object; and, (b) an experimentally observed one. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 5, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Sabine Hossenfelder asks, Should Stephen Hawking have won the Nobel? Rob Sheldon weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
April 5, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physics
Rob Sheldon: Hawking did not get the Nobel, however, because he hung his hopes on the radiation emitted by BH--the so-called "Hawking radiation". And it was never observed. Sabine tries to explain why. But one argument that Sabine doesn't make, is that Hawking radiation may never have been observed because BH are themselves never observed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 3, 2021
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Physics
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Avi Loeb suggests that the design of life might have been a black hole. Michael Egnor responds

Denyse O'Leary
February 3, 2021
Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life, Physics
Michael Egnor: Both an intelligent designer (assuming we’re talking about God) and a black hole are supernatural, in the sense that they are not objects in the natural world. This may not surprise you about God, but it is also true of black holes. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 7, 2020
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Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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At Forbes: Hawking’s black hole paradox is NOT solved

Denyse O'Leary
November 7, 2020
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
Ethan Siegel looks at the limitations: But we’re still a long way away from determining exactly where that information goes, and how it gets out of a black hole. Theorists disagree over the validity and soundness of many of the methods that are currently being employed to do these calculations, and no one has even a theoretical prediction for how this information should be encoded by an evaporating black hole, much less how to measure it. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 30, 2020
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Cosmology, Intelligent Design
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Did the black hole paradox really come to an end? Rob Sheldon offers some thoughts

Denyse O'Leary
October 30, 2020
Cosmology, Intelligent Design
Sheldon: Black Holes are a theoretical and empirical disaster. Given two possible assumptions to Schwarzschild’s solution of Einstein’s gravity equation, nearly everyone has taken the discontinuous, unphysical, "event-horizon" assumption leading to "Black Holes". One of the many predictions of BH, is that they cannot have magnetic fields, and they destroy anything that falls into them, converting all that matter into "Hawking radiation". What about all that data showing high density objects at the center of our galaxy and neighboring galaxies? Read More ›