Time and Singularity
Facilis writes: The Big Bang theory says that time, space, and matter/energy all originate in the same singularity, not that they all originate in “nothing.” And I’ve seen several philosopher make the...
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Defining a hypothesis
R. C. Moore has an interesting comment that is at risk of being lost in the flood of recent comments, and I don’t want to let it just slip by, so I’m promoting it up here where I can answer it more...
View ArticleWhy “Loser’s” Compromise?
[Update: I forgot to include the link back to Lifeguard's original comment; fixed now.] Well, I’m back, sort of, and from the looks of things you guys didn’t miss me too much. I don’t suppose I’ll ever...
View ArticleLife after death, as the Sadducees saw it.
Commenter mikespeir has a question about my claim that the Sadducees already believed in life after death. Why do you say that? I realize we don’t have a lot to go on, but I thought it was pretty well...
View ArticleEncore: Reality-based faith vs. superstitious faith
[Originally posted on August 21, 2007] A commenter writes: Belief in the existence of God or belief that there is no god requires faith. Yes, and I’ll take it a step further: belief in reality requires...
View ArticleAnswers for Nick
As I mentioned before, I’m not shutting down this blog completely, and we have a new guest in the comments, with some interesting questions. Since Nick asks such good questions, I’m promoting them to a...
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