Archive for April 22nd, 2008
On the Anthropic Principle
Victor Stenger, the toughest-minded NT stone-cold sonofabitch this side of Californie, angrily rips apart the mystical anthropic principle and its allegedly theism-friendly consequences. Apart from that scary spectacle, there is an interesting note that “André Linde proposed that a background spacetime ‘foam’ empty of matter and radiation will experience local quantum fluctuations in curvature, forming [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Religion, Science.
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Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: Dembski
And I thought I first generalized intelligent design as a form of grace! But William Dembski got there before me: “In book two of the Physics Aristotle referred to design as completing ‘what nature cannot bring to a finish.’ (Note that Thomas Aquinas took this idea and sacramentalized it into grace completing nature.)” (The Design [...]
Posted: April 22nd, 2008 under Religion, Science.
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