Skeptophilia

I first ran into the fine-tuning argument around twenty-five years ago when I read astrophysicist Martin Rees 's wonderful book Just Six...

One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about this...

When I was an undergraduate, I sang in the University of Louisiana Choir in a production of Franz Josef Haydn's spectacular choral work ...

One of the most enduring mysteries of physics is why the fundamental constants have the values they do. I remember first thinking about th...

There's this idea that the creationists just love, and it's called the Strong Anthropic Principle .  The idea of the Strong Anthropi...

I received a response to a recent post in the form of an (actually quite friendly) email that posed a question I've been asked before, a...