When confronted with a demand that the universe have a cause, infidels have usually pointed out that God was not much of an explanation. This is true…

- Taner Edis

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

- Taner Edis

Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

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Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming someth…

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Of course, Jastrow's comment is exaggerated at best; theologians hardly predicted the Big Bang. If our universe turns out to be closed, hence with an…

- Taner Edis

Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

- Taner Edis

Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

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To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

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In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. Howeve…

- Taner Edis