Your Sacred Life
I thought I was done with this atheism series. However, I came across this passage from Wayne Dyers’s book, Your […]
Debates
I engaged in long discussions on physics and philosophy through email and in Internet forums. Some of them are a bit nasty, but most were conducted in good taste. Here they are, both for your reading pleasure and my archival purposes.
God — A Personal Story
I want to wrap up this series on atheism with a personal story about the point in time where I
The Origins of Gods
The atheist-theist debate boils down to a simple question — Did humans discover God? Or, did we invent Him? The
Atheism and Unreal God
Here is a slightly more formal argument against atheism We have a physical realm and a mental one. Why not say God lives in the mental or spiritual realm?
Atheism vs. God Experience
I have a reason for delaying this post on the fifth and last argument for God by Dr. William Lane
Atheism and the Morality of the Godless
In the previous post, we considered the cosmological argument (that the Big Bang theory is an affirmation of a God)
Atheism – Christian God, or Lack Thereof
Prof. William Lane Craig is way more than a deist; he is certainly a theist. In fact, he is more
Debates, The Wilmott Magazine, Quantitative Finance
Risk – Wiley FinCAD Webinar
This post is an edited version of my responses in a Webinar panel-discussion organized by Wiley-Finance and FinCAD. The freely available Webcast is linked in the post, and contains responses from the other participants — Paul Wilmott and Espen Huag. An expanded version of this post may later appear as an article in the Wilmott Magazine.
SFN - Science Forums, Philosophy, Physics, Debates
The Big Bang Theory – Part II
This post is a continuation of my earlier musings on the Big Bang theory. This one looks at the foundational assumptions of quantum gravity. In management speak, it is a high level overview, which sounds like I understand it. In a physicist’s lingo, it is merely a layman description or a hand-waving argument. In other words, the management types out there may like it better than the smart ones. You be the judge!
Philosophy, Physics, Debates
What is Space?
This post examines the realness of our space perception. (Why did you think this blog was called Unreal?)
Debates, SFN - Science Forums, Physics
Tsunami
The Asian Tsunami two and a half years ago unleashed tremendous amount energy on the coastal regions around the Indian ocean. What do you think would’ve have happened to this energy if there had been no water to carry it away from the earthquake?
Debates, SFN - Science Forums, Physics
Universe – Size and Age
I posted this question that was bothering me when I read that they found a galaxy at about 13 billion light years away. My understanding of that statement is: At distance of 13 billion light years, there was a galaxy 13 billion years ago, so that we can see the light from it now. Wouldn’t that mean that the universe is at least 26 billion years old? It must have taken the galaxy about 13 billion years to reach where it appears to be, and the light from it must take another 13 billion years to reach us.