Stephen Hawking: Science Will Win Against Religion

In writing: When asked by ABC News’ Diane Sawyer about the biggest mystery he’d like solved, he said, “I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.” “What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most […]

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Mr. Deity Tries To Find Time To Make Time

I don’t know if I’ve seen such a well-scripted bit of comdy about metaphysics and cosmology before: Your Thoughts?

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Does Thermodynamics Prove The Existence Of God?

Ozmoroid both hilariously and scientifically refutes a video which claims it does… Your Thoughts?

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Does Quantum Mechanics Prove The Existence Of God

One YouTuber claims it does and this highly informed video both presents and refutes his claims most educationally and, in the last half, hilariously: Your Thoughts?

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Dawkins On The Anthropic Principle

Interesting remarks on the possible implications of Darwinian thinking for thinking in physics.  Is it possible that there is natural selection among many universes? Watch Dawkins’s entire talk from which this clips comes. Your Thoughts?

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Confirming Galileo: Hammer Vs. Feather On The Moon

Well, you know which one this website’s going to be pulling for: From the YouTube information listings: WEBSITE: http://www.teachertube.com On the surface of the Moon at Hadley Rille Apollo 15 Commander David Scott verifies Galileo’s discovery that all objects in gravity fields fall at the same speed. (via) Your Thoughts?

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Debunking A Creationist Documentary Error By Error

djarm67, a scientifically literate theist, presents the creationist A Questions of Origins while correcting each distortion, oversimplification, and error as it occurs: There are six parts, watch them all if you have the time. Your Thoughts?

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Physicist Steven Weinberg On The Question Of God

Your Thoughts?

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Is The Idea Of “Nothing” Illusory?

I was thinking about the argument for the existence of God that hinges on the question of how something could come from nothing.  And I wondered, is nothing even an intelligible concept?  Everything we experience is something. We have a concept of zero since we can imagine there being zero of some particular thing either […]

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Anatomy Of A Black Hole

A neat presentation of the nature and workings of black holes. Your Thoughts?

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Richard Dawkins on “Thinking The Improbable”

A captivating lecture:

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Richard Dawkins Interviews Jesuit Astronomer Father George Coyne

An utterly fascinating dialogue, Coyne throughout is a novel, deeply scientifically informed, and riveting thinker and Dawkins puts exactly the right questions and brief challenges to him.  Watch all 7 parts, they’re great. Your Thoughts?

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Naturalism As True By Definition

Jason Streitfeld weighs in on the question of naturalism or supernaturalism, treated by Sean Carroll here, John Pieret here, and Shane and me in these this post and then this one. Streitfeld’s post is excellent so read it in full. Scientists do not rely on any notion of the supernatural to formulate their conception of […]

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Can Scientists Infer About Naturalism And Its Limitations?

John Pieret is not thrilled with Sean Carroll’s foray into the philosophy of science and metaphysics from Thursday. Particularly, he is (rightly) critical of Carroll’s dismissal of major theories of scientific demarcation as mere “mottos” and his apparently unnuanced and uncritical preference for Occam’s Razor in all cases.  Only in the final paragraph does he […]

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Is Karma Incompatible With Atheism?

An excellent question posed by a Scot, a reader at The Friendly Atheist. While Richard gives a fine answer supposing belief in a supernatural version of Karma, I find several of the comments interesting and more akin to the way I’ve used the term. Gary says: Actually, the word “karma” is sanskrit and simply means […]

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Science And Supernatural Hypotheses, Present and Possible Future

Via PZ Myers, comes a long and recommendable argument by Sean Carroll on the philosophy of science and how scientific understanding of the world thus far precludes any room for miracles (thus making the religion and science incompatible).  Excerpted from the much longer article with interesting things on the philosophy of science which I recommend […]

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The History Of The Universe With Physicist Michio Kaku

Five Videos, start with this one: Thanks to Atheist Media Blog.

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