Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 13: The Israelites in Egypt
In my review of Professor Stenger's work, I have reached a few comments he made concerning biblical archaeology, where he claimed that the Old Testament had basically been disproved by archaeological findings. This is the third post in a series in which I will discuss the archaeology of the Old Testament. In this post I discuss whether archaeology disproves the existence of Joseph and the Israelite sojourn in Egypt.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 12: The Patriarchs
In my review of Professor Stenger's work, I have reached a few comments he made concerning biblical archaeology, where he claimed that the Old Testament had basically been disproved by archaeological findings. This is the second post in a series in which I will discuss the archaeology of the Old Testament. In this post I discuss whether archaeology disproves the existence of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Does the Mentaculus disprove efficient causality?
Philosophers ponder about the nature of time, and in particular why we perceive it to have a direction and succession. One school of thought states that time's arrow is reducible to some other physical phenomena, such as the increase of entropy. One way in which this is formulated is a proposal by Albert and Loewer, which is termed as the "Mentaculus." A recent paper has argued that this understanding of time is inconsistent with efficient causality, as used in the Kalam cosmological argument. I describe this objection, and respond.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 11: Introduction to Biblical Archaeology
In my review of Professor Stenger's work, I have reached a few comments on Biblical archaeology. This is the first post in a series in which I will discuss the archaeology of the Old Testament (or, more specifically, from Abraham through to the fall of Kingdom of Judah at the hands of the Babylonians). This post serves as an introduction to the subject.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 10: The unreliable God
I give an overview of the sixth chapter of Victor Stenger's book God: The failed hypothesis, and his discussion of whether the Biblical text is reliable and coherent.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 9: The inefficient God
I look at the fifth chapter of Victor Stenger's book God: The failed hypothesis, and his discussion of whether God was wasteful in constructing the universe.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 8: Fine Tuning
I look at the fifth chapter of Victor Stenger's book God: The failed hypothesis, and his discussion of the fine tuning arguments
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 7: Laws, origins and miracles
I look at the fourth chapter of Victor Stenger's book God: The failed hypothesis, and his discussion of the laws of physics and the origin of the universe.
Wigner's Acquaintances
I have a look at a couple of new arguments about the interpretation of quantum physics based on the Wigner's friend argument.
Is God a failed Hypothesis? Part 6: Psychics, prayer and the soul
I look at the second chapter of Victor Stenger's book God: The failed hypothesis, and in particular his discussion of the reality of the soul, and whether it can be tested scientifically. He also discusses the efficacy of prayer and various other ideas such as immortality and vital forces.