31Oct 2025 by Post

The Forces that Shape our Universe: Gravity

A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, astronomers, Big Bang, black holes, driving, earth, escape velocity, expansion rate, fine-tuning, fundamental forces, Geraint F. Lewis, GPS systems, gravity, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, life, Luke A. Barnes, matter, Moon, nuclear forces, particles, physics, Planetology, planets, universe
One of the most remarkable aspects of our universe is the discovery that just four fundamental forces of nature govern interactions among all particles. Source
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13Sep 2024 by Post

Were We Made to Make Black Holes?

Anthropic Principle, black holes, computing systems, cosmic reproduction, cosmogony, Cosmological Natural Selection, cosmology, elements, Evolution, evolutionary theory, fusion reactors, Intelligent Design, intelligent life, Jay Richards, Jeffery Shainline, Lee Smolin, life, National Institutes of Standards and Technology, niobium, particle accelerators, Physics, Earth & Space, planets, scientific discovery, silicon, stars, superconductivity, Technology, The Privileged Planet, universes
I want to compare our book with a 2020 paper by Jeffery Shainline of the National Institutes of Standards and Technology. Source
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06Apr 2023 by Post

Local Fine-Tuning and Habitable Zones

Anthropic Principle, astrobiology, biology, black holes, climatology, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmological constant, cosmological initial conditions, density of gas, density of stars, exobiology, fine-tuning, Frederik van Niekerk, fundamental forces, galactic disk, gas metallicity, geophysics, global tuning, habitability, hydrogen, Intelligent Design, life, local tuning, Nico Vorster, physical constants, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, planetary dynamics, Science and Faith in Dialogue, solar system, stellar evolution, supernova rate, universe, Weak Anthropic Principle
In considering fine-tuning, physicists assume that the constants and initial conditions (and possibly the physical laws) could have been different. Source
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28Oct 2021 by Post

Are Singularities a Part of Science?

Albert Einstein, Arjuna Das, atheists, Big Bang, black holes, extra-natural objects, Faith & Science, field equations, general relativity, infinity, Justice, mathematics, Matt Dillahunty, mercy, Michael Egnor, morality, Physics, Earth & Space, singularities, supernatural, Theology Unleashed, Thomas Aquinas, zero
"Any paper that discusses or describes singularities in the field equations of general relativity is discussing extra-natural objects." Source
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26May 2020 by Post

Lewontin’s Confession and Mamet’s Principle

atheists, Big Bang, black holes, censorship, Darwinists, David Mamet, free will, Harvard University, Intelligent Design, Jerry Coyne, materialists, mind, morality, nature, neuroscience, Richard Lewontin, Singularity, teleology
Jerry Coyne and his Darwinist/materialist/atheist brethren make public assertions that are nonsense on their face: they claim to be mindless meat machines, they deny the indisputable evidence for intelligent design in biology and for teleology in all of nature, they deny the obvious evidence for the supernatural in cosmological singularities such as black holes and the singularity at the origin of the Big Bang, and they deny the manifest corruption of modern science by materialism and arrogance and egotism. Materialists tout determinism and deny free will, despite the fact that determinism in physics has been quite decisively refuted and the fact that free will is well supported by neuroscience and that denial of free will negates the ability to make a truth claim of any sort (if a materialist’s opinion…
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11Dec 2019 by Post

Are the Laws of the Universe “Inevitable”?

Adam Falkowski, Albert Einstein, beauty of nature, Big Bang, black holes, CEA Saclay, Daniel Baumann, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Laurentiu Rodina, laws of the universe, mathematics, metric tensor, Natalie Wolchover, Nobel Prize, Paul Dirac, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, Quanta Magazine, quantum mechanics, Shakespearean sonnet, Sistine Chapel, Steven Weinberg, theory of gravity, University of Amsterdam
Natalie Wolchover at Quanta Magazine has a thoughtful but misguided essay on the “inevitability” of the laws of nature. She writes: Compared to the unsolved mysteries of the universe, far less gets said about one of the most profound facts to have crystallized in physics over the past half-century: To an astonishing degree, nature is the way it is because it couldn’t be any different. “There’s just no freedom in the laws of physics that we have,” said Daniel Baumann, a theoretical physicist at the University of Amsterdam. She cites Baumann to describe the incredible interlocked intricacy of physical laws: [L]aws essentially dictate one another through their mutual consistency — that nature “pulls itself up by its own bootstraps.” The idea turns out to explain a huge amount about the universe.…
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