Krauss acknowledges that "no one but the most ardent fundamentalists would suggest that each and every [material] object is … purposefully created by a divine intelligence…"[6] and that "many laypeople as well as scientists revel in our ability to explain how snowflakes and rainbows can spontaneously appear, based on simple, elegant laws of physics". A Universe From Someone – Against Lawrence Krauss. On such a theory there’s literally no reason why the universe exists rather than just a tea set (and, contrary to empirical observation, no reason why tea sets don’t fluctuate in and out of existence randomly for no reason at all)! 5) Therefore, the explanation of the universe’s existence is God. For the 2020 holiday season, returnable items shipped between October 1 and December 31 can be returned until January 31, 2021.
The same can’t be said about the Dawkins afterword, which is both superfluous and silly. By definition, then, ‘nothing’ doesn’t have any properties capable of doing anything – certainly not creating something. -- Case closed. During his time there he gave a talk on his latest idea – that empty space might contain energy. We work hard to protect your security and privacy. [5] Lawrence Krauss, in Sam Harris, ‘Everything and Nothing: An Interview with Lawrence M. Krauss’ http://richarddawkins.net/articles/644472-everything-and-nothing-an-interview-with-lawrence-krauss. http://dovetheology.com/apologetics/atkins/.
There are, of course, several independent versions of the ‘First Cause’ or ‘cosmological’ argument. Likewise, argues Richard Purtill, consider any contingent reality: the same two principles apply. "Arguing that it is self-evident, unwavering, and unassailable [that ‘from nothing, nothing comes’]," alleges Krauss, represents "an unwillingness to recognize the simple fact that nature may be cleverer than philosophers or theologians. "[52] On the one hand, any naturalistic ‘mechanism’ must involve some physical law or other (and thus, one would think, some physical reality described by that law), which provides nothing but a new way to raise the ultimate question of origins: ‘Why does this law exist?’ On the other hand, if the ‘mechanism’ Krauss has in mind is non-naturalistic, then Krauss is self-confessedly left with only one remaining option: A Universe From Someone. The service requires full cookie support in order to view this website. [13] Cf.
A book that reveals just how much we do know and how much we do not know about the fascinating universe we live in.
One might desire a square-circle, one might very much like 1+1 to equal 7, but we know that the universe isn’t going to oblige because these concepts are self-contradictory. cit.
Posted on 29/09/2020 by j1417.com staff That the universe is fine-tuned for life, with multiple physical laws required to be within small ranges, is generally accepted. Krauss may complain that "religion and theology … muddy the waters … by focusing on questions of nothingness without providing any definition of the term based on empirical evidence"[35] – but any definition of nothing "based on empirical evidence" would be a definition of ‘nothing’ that has nothing to do with the philosophical questions of why there is something rather than nothing, or whether or not the existence of an empirical realm entails or is best explained by a non-empirical (metaphysical) order of reality. ‘Nothing,’ they insist, is not any of the things I discuss. [36] Ibid, p.149.
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Adherence to such a regressive explanatory assumption would make science impossible; which is one reason why the first-cause argument is justified in rejecting the notion of an actually infinite explanatory regress. Krauss is obviously labouring under the false impression that creation ex nihilo means ‘creation out of nothing’, as if ‘nothing’ were a sort of something somehow used by a non-existent God in the creation of the cosmos. Yet, all they have done is explain how to get something from something. [22] Massimo Pigliucci, ‘Lawrence Krauss: another physicist with an anti-philosophy complex’ http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/lawrence-krauss-another-physicist-with.html.
[36], Of course, its Krauss who is redefining terms here (moreover, the only way in which "something" and "nothing" could be "physical concepts", as Krauss claims, is on the assumption of a physicalist metaphysics – an assumption that makes Krauss’ argument against the need for a Creator question begging). Who cares what we would or would not have made a peep about a hundred years ago? We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. [9] Ibid., p.xii. In typical neo-atheist fashion, Krauss has little time for philosophy. Christians believe that God is self-subsistent and exists outside of time and had no beginning, properties Krauss wishes nature had. Yet, all they have done is explain how to get something from something. It seems to me that this last condition – the absence of any laws that might have caused or constrained the emergence of matter and space-time – really is a case of ‘nothing’ in the strictest sense. And the fact that particles can pop in and out of existence, over time, as those fields rearrange themselves, is not a whit more mysterious than the fact that fists can pop in and out of existence, over time, as my fingers rearrange themselves.
Newton, for example, took that elementary stuff to consist of material particles. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing.
End of story… Krauss seems to be thinking that these vacuum states amount to the relativistic-quantum-field-theoretical version of there not being any physical stuff at all.
Lawrence M. Krauss, a well-known cosmologist and prolific popular-science writer, apparently means to announce to the world, in this new book, that the laws of quantum mechanics have in them the makings of a thoroughly scientific and adamantly secular explanation of why there is something rather than nothing. You‘d naturally wonder how it came to be there. be caused by) nothing. Krauss’ antipathy towards philosophy means that he blunders into the metaphysical debate about origins as an ill-prepared layperson.
The same can't be said about the Dawkins afterword, which is both superfluous and silly.
There's a problem loading this menu right now. Your Word alone created [heaven and earth].'[41]. Afterwards, Krauss recalls, a young physicist came up to him and said, “We will prove you wrong!”.
[53] Ibid, p.174.
A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (Free Press, 2012), by cosmologist Lawrence M. Krauss, has been lauded to the skies by fellow atheists such as A.C. Grayling, Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson. [3] Ibid. “I have no idea if this notion can be usefully dispensed with,” he writes, “or at least I don’t know of any productive work in this regard.” And what if he did know of some productive work in that regard? God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, THE RATIONAL UNIVERSE: EINSTEIN'S BEST IDEA, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View Of The Origin Of The Universe.
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