It can be more interesting than one might suppose. Prominent physicist Lawrence Krauss of Arizona State University has recently discussed the question of whether nothing is just the absence of something on NBCNews.com (in connection with his recent book on the subject): “Is that really nothing?… There’s no space and there’s no time. But what [...]

Steve Fuller, author of Dissent over Descent, is a sociology professor who holds the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, England. He was educated at Columbia University where he graduated cum laude in History and Sociology in 1979. In 1981 he received a Master of [...]

Attempts to discredit the the Big Bang, in which our universe is thought to have originated, have been impressively feeble in recent decades. Possibly for philosophical reasons, most consumers of popular science media do not protest the low quality of the evidence and resulting arguments against it. Like the many physicists who have been proponents [...]

Given that many top scientists have disliked the Big Bang (it sounds too much like God at work), it is perhaps no surprise that world famous cosmologist Stephen Hawking took the opportunity to bash the Bang at a a recent public appearance in Pasadena. Given the number of pop science writers who share his view, [...]

As we saw earlier, atheist cosmologists have hated and tried to discredit the Big Bang as the origin of our universe ever since the generally accepted theory, developed by Georges Lemaître, first began to be discussed among scientists in the early 1930s. Lemaître was a Belgian priest, but that probably wasn’t why they associated the [...]

Why do so many who study our universe (cosmologists) hate the Big Bang? Quantum cosmologist Christopher Isham recalls, Perhaps the best argument in favor of the thesis that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this has led to scientific ideas, such [...]

Yes, it is true, the thing is helplessly large, with eyes as big as dinner plates. It lives in the depths of the ocean, so it usually only washes up as fragments. (We can estimate the approximate size of the animal via the sizes of the fragments.) Recently, there has been some more light shed [...]

I keep hearing from people who wonder why everyone now hates philosopher Thomas “What is it like to be a bat?” Nagel. Actually, if you have covered the history of life beat, as I have, for over a decade, there is no need to ask why Darwin’s tenured mediocrities, Christian or otherwise, hate him so much. [...]

A recent study suggests that sizes of life forms may be easier to interpret using laws of mathematics. That’s interesting, if true, because over the years, one has heard much about “island dwarfing” and “island gigantism” (giantism), presumed products of Darwinian natural selection. Some have cast doubt on these claims, calling them magical thinking. For [...]

Perhaps in response to “Journal reports honestly why science articles get retracted – most interesting,” a bench scientist who must both publish in peer-reviewed journals and get grants, kindly wrote me to say, Peer review is subjective by nature, so we should be cautious about expecting it to do too much. What’s wrong with the [...]