What Is Physics?

October 25, 2012 By 3 Comments

Padawan Physicist, a physics graduate student with a love of philosophy and Camels With Hammers, has started a new blog to explain physics and its relevance to everyday atheists’ worldviews. In his inaugural post, he defines physics and what its three basic jobs are. In his follow up post, of special interest to Schrödinger fans, he gives a State of the Cat address.

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The Higgs Boson

July 4, 2012 By 7 Comments

I figured with the big Higgs Boson news today, I would repost this fantastic video explaining what the Higgs Boson is and then round up some more resources for learning more about it and about what the discovery of a new particle today was and what it means. Go to PhD Comics for individual images from the [...]

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Higgs Boson Research Explained With Cool Cartoon

May 23, 2012 By 7 Comments

I can’t say I understand all of this but it’s fascinating to try: Go to PhD Comics for individual images from the video. Your Thoughts?

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What Is Matter?

February 26, 2012 By 5 Comments

Learn in a couple minutes: I ran this by a padawan physicist (i.e., a physics graduate student) and here was his verdict on the accuracy:

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Two Arguments for Evolution by Rational Selection

January 1, 2012 By 22 Comments

Although there is some empirical justification for the Principles of Sufficient Reason and Plenitude, much of the discussion of the logic of creation and evolution by rational selection has been highly abstract.  It has been a priori; a matter of pure reason.  But it is reasonable to demand empirical justification for those metaphysical theories.  To [...]

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On Evolution by Rational Selection

January 1, 2012 By 3 Comments

Almost all atheists are surely aware of Darwinian evolution, which is evolution by natural selection, and which explains the history of life on earth.  Universal Darwinism is the thesis that evolutionary principles operate beyond earthly biology.  Of course, not all things have genes or compete for survival in ecosystems.  More general evolutionary theories need not [...]

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"Not Everything In Life Is Logical"

October 24, 2011 By 17 Comments

When we rationalists, naturalists, and other assorted atheists insist that no one should form beliefs that disregard logic and evidence, the defenders of faith often tell us that “Not everything in life is logical”, or use some variant of this phrase. What might they mean by this? Where is their confusion exactly and how best [...]

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Documentary with Stephen Hawking about Whether God Created the Universe

October 22, 2011 By 2 Comments

Your Thoughts?

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Learn About Dark Matter In One Minute

August 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment

More one minute physics lessons here. H/T: Greg Laden Your Thoughts?

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Lawrence Krauss Replies To William Lane Craig’s Crowing

April 5, 2011 By 9 Comments

Physicist Lawrence Krauss recently debated William Lane Craig and was appalled by both his tactics in the debate and his subsequent representations of it. Krauss is eager to get his own account of events to a wider audience, so in the interest of contributing to that end, I am reproducing it in full below. You [...]

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