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At Mind Matters News: Physicist: Science, by nature, can’t have a theory of everything

As Marcelo Gleiser puts it, “The very process of discovery leads to more unknowns.” And they may be smaller or larger than our current knowns.

Posted on December 6, 2021December 6, 2021 Author News Comments(11)
Intelligent Design

At Mind Matters News: Why did Stephen Hawking give up on a Theory of Everything?

Robert J. Marks: He appealed to Gödel: No matter what you did, there would be stuff that was true in the universe that you still needed to prove…

Posted on September 27, 2021September 27, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Columbia University mathematician Peter Woit offers a shrewd assessment of Stephen Hawking and pop physics

Hawking was looking for a unified theory and Woit thinks the idea is pretty much discredited now: “We now live in an environment where the idea that there may be a deeper, more unified theory has become completely discredited, through the efforts of many, with Hawking playing an unfortunate part.”

Posted on May 24, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Intelligent Design Naturalism

Robert J. Marks: How materialism proves unbounded scientific ignorance

Mathematician Kurt Gödel showed that there is an infinite number of truths that are provably unprovable. That’s bad news for scientism, though not for science.

Posted on April 18, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Can a big enough computer come up with a Theory of Everything? Eric Holloway says yer dreamin’…

Bottom line: The rigorously proven No Free Lunch theorem shows that physicists will always be needed to determine the correct questions. No computer will do all our thinking for us.

Posted on December 3, 2020December 3, 2020 Author News Comment(1)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Sabine Hossenfelder asks: Do we need a theory of everything?

Hossenfelder: So this whole idea of a theory of everything is based on an unscientific premise. Some people would like the laws of nature to be pretty in a very specific way… This is simply not a good strategy to develop scientific theories, and no, it is most certainly not standard methodology.

Posted on July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 Author News Comments(9)
Cosmology Darwinism Intelligent Design

At Forbes: Wolfram’s new theory “isn’t even science” yet. But wait…

We can tell what’s wrong with science today when we try to take Siegel’s dead-serious explanation of what he thinks a theory in science is and apply it to: Darwinian evolution theory

Posted on May 17, 2020May 17, 2020 Author News Comments(3)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Stephen Wolfram’s new theory of everything LACKS something?

Let’s see if this Answer to Everything is still a buzz in the fall.

Posted on April 29, 2020April 29, 2020 Author News Comments(6)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Sabine Hossenfelder asks, How can we test a theory of everything?

Hossenfelder: But there is no reason to think that the forces of the standard model have to be unified, or that all the forces ultimately derive from one common explanation. It would be nice, but maybe that’s just not how the universe works.

Posted on November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Author News Comments(4)
Cosmology Intelligent Design Physics

Was a theory of everything bound to fail?

If reality truly is constructed of disparate natures, maybe no theory from inside would explain it all.

Posted on April 5, 2019April 5, 2019 Author News Comment(1)

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  • critical rationalist A sad state of affairs. The Designer is outside of space and time and creates without using pre-existing matter. Can... – L&FP, 66: String -- yes, s-t-r-i-n-g...
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