Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

aeons, assumptions, Bars-Steinhardt-Turok model, black holes, Boltzmann brain, bouncing cosmologies, concentric low-variance circles, conformal cyclic cosmology, consciousness, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, dark matter, de Sitter horizon entropy, disorder, Douglas Scott, Edward Tryon, entropy, erebon, fine-tuning, gravitational wave epoch, Hawking radiation, intelligent cause, Mount Everest, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Roger Penrose, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Tod equations, trilemma, universe, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis
Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Source
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Applying Scientific Method to the Origin of Life Yields Shaky Results

abiogenesis, assumptions, asteroids, bias, confidence, Evidence, experiments, Gerald Joyce, Intelligent Design, investigator intervention, James Tour, Long Story Short, meteors, methodological naturalism, Miller-Urey experiment, murder, natural causes, natural processes, naturalism, origin of life, polymerase, repeatability, researchers, ribozyme, RNA, Science and Culture Today, scientific reasoning, scientists, self-replicating molecules, Sol Spiegelman, suicide, tabloids, water droplets
Scientists are not, or should not be, tabloid headline writers. They should only make claims that are strongly supported by evidence. Source
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Science Sunday: Is Scientific Materialism the Best Framework for Understanding Reality?

assumptions, Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, cosmos, Daniel Dennett, earth, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, material universe, materialism, Neil deGrasse Tyson, pop science, purposelessness, science, Science Uprising, scientific materialism
The voices of pop science teach us and our children that "everything, if Darwin is right, is mechanical and blind and purposeless at the bottom." Source
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Origin of Life: Cambridge Astrochemist Paul Rimmer Analyzes the Tour-Farina Debate

amino acids, Asphalt Paradox, assumptions, astrochemists, Cambridge University, Capturing Christianity, chemical evolution, Darwinian evolution, Dave Farina, early Earth, Evolution, experiments, Intelligent Design, James Tour, John Sutherland, origin of life, Podcast, Probability Paradox, RNA, RNA world, Steven Benner
The differing perspectives of Tour and Rimmer result from the differences in their starting assumptions. Source
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