thoughtful ideas on life's big questions
People believe or disbelieve in God for many different reasons. Some people’s experience of God has been so strong, or so unsatisfying or zero, that has pretty much determined their belief, or lack of belief. Those experiences may be subjective, but they can be very real. But I’ve always felt that what I believe needs […]
The small dot in the picture is earth, viewed from far out in space. All of human history, every person’s life, the great achievements and works of art, the wars and the tragedies, all occurred on that dot (or for a very few people and days, on its moon that cannot even be seen here.) […]
The universe seems way larger than it needs to be to provide a place for us humans. Is that an argument against creation by God? What does science say?
A journalist sums up some of the evidence that there is more to the world and life than materialism suggests.
The more we learn about our universe, and the forces and particles that form it, the more weird it seems.
An old Sean Carroll video asks whether God is a good scientific theory. The video is persuasive, but most of the arguments fall down on analysis.
Sherlock Holmes said: “when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” How does this apply to the universe?
Cosmologist Luke Barnes, an expert on the scientific evidence for the fine-tuning of the universe, has published an argument for the existence of God.
How do we explain the universe? Are there reasons to believe God made it, or it appeared out of nothing? Or should we give up on finding an explanation and say it just is (a “brute fact”)?
People tend to take a lot for granted. The sun keeps shining, the earth is full of useful minerals and gravity keeps us from flying off into space. We don’t think about it much, but what if things were different? What if gravity repulsed rather than attracted? What if we couldn’t sit on a chair […]