The Thomistic Doctrine of Creatio Continuans
Traditionally, there are two models for how God preserves the existence of the universe. The first is creatio originans (originating creation), which suggests that there has been one initial act of...
View ArticleA Theological Argument for an Everett Multiverse
The following is the abstract to Don Page’s paper, “A Theological Argument for an Everett Multiverse.” Science looks for the simplest hypotheses to explain observations. Starting with the simple...
View ArticleAn Abductive Fine-Tuning Argument
The fine-tuning argument argues that when physics and the laws of nature are expressed mathematically their values are ever so balanced in a way that permits the existence of life. I’m merely arguing...
View ArticleBoltzmann Brains and Multiverse Scenarios
Max Tegmark has introduced an anthropic principle specifically related to multiverse scenarios—the minimalistic anthropic principle (MAP). Tegmark believes the anthropic principle has generated more...
View ArticleQuantum Entanglement and the Many Worlds Interpretation
Erwin Schrödinger introduced quantum entanglement in a 1935 paper[1] delivered to the Cambridge Philosophical Society in which he argued that the state of a system of two particles that have interacted...
View ArticleQ&A 34: Thomas Aquinas’ Understanding of Creation and Time
Question: Hey Max I have a few questions about your cosmological argument from Thomas Aquinas: (1) Did Aquinas believe in creation out of nothing? (2) Did Aquinas believe that the universe existed...
View ArticleFine-Tuning of the Multiverse Lecture PowerPoint
Below is the attachment for my lecture on the Fine-Tuning argument and the multiverse lecture PowerPoint. I used this lecture [and updated material] for three years while I was a GA teaching a...
View ArticleThe Doctrine of Variety and Many Worlds
Thomas Aquinas believed that there was an appropriated assimilation or likeness to God found in creatures and creation. Some likeness must be found between an effect and its cause. It is in the...
View ArticleA Theological Argument for Many Worlds
The following is the abstract to Don Page’s paper, “A Theological Argument for an Everett Multiverse.” Science looks for the simplest hypotheses to explain observations. Starting with the simple...
View ArticleMight Some of Doctor Who actually be Possible?
The following is an article my PhD mentor, Alasdair Richmond, wrote for The Conversation. ____ As Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary looms, time travel is everywhere – on the screen, at least. Famously,...
View ArticleWould Multiple Universes Rule Out Fine-Tuning?
The multiverse hypothesis is the leading alternative to the competing fine-tuning hypothesis. The multiverse dispels many aspects of the fine-tuning argument by suggesting that there are different...
View ArticleThe Atheist Argument from Fine-Tuning is too Coarse
Believe it or not an atheist friend of mine has presented an argument from fine-tuning to demonstrate that God doesn’t exist. I think there are several different problem with the argument but I’ll be...
View ArticleQ&A 40: William Lane Craig on the Multiverse and Is Free Will Incoherent?
Question: I accidentally found your blog recently ! Lots of great stuff and I’ll be definitely reading more. 2 questions though 1) I was watching the Craig/Carroll debate on cosmology. Craig seemed to...
View ArticlePhilosophical Fragments Botches the Multiverse
Philosophical Fragments is a blog with Patheos and there was a guest post (don’t hold it against he actual blog owner, it’s a guest) named Mark Goldblatt (I’m not certain that’s the author but notice...
View ArticleMany Worlds and Modal Realism – Tyndale Fellowship Paper
I recently returned from my journey to Cambridge University where I presented a paper titled “The Ontology of Many Worlds and Thomistic Modal Realism”. This paper is a continuation of research from...
View ArticleEavesdropping Ep5: Many Worlds and Modal Realism
In Eavesdropping Ep5 I discuss my recent from Cambridge University where I presented a paper titled “The Ontology of Many Worlds and Thomistic Modal Realism”. This paper is a continuation of research...
View ArticlePodcast: What Kinds of Multiverses are There?
Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/sententias/eavesdropping-ep25-levels-of-the-multiverse Contemporary physics seem to indicate that there are good reasons, theoretically and physically, for an idea that...
View ArticleGoogle Hangout –“God and the Multiverse” Oct. 11
This week on Oct. 11 I will be doing a public talk via Google + Hangout with the Christian Apologists in Calgary, Canada. The topic of my talk will be on God and the multiverse. This promo video will...
View ArticleMy E-Books: From Molinism to Existentialism
I have gathered my four e-books that I’ve published through Amazon in one convenient spot. Although it would be advantageous to set up a proper author’s page with Amazon but I have yet to do that and...
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