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Abstract: Popular cosmology often claims that quantum physics explains how the universe arose from “nothing.” This essay examines that claim in the work of Alexander Vilenkin and Lawrence Krauss, showing that the “nothing” invoked is not absolute nonbeing but a physically and mathematically specified state—governed by quantum laws, configuration spaces, and boundary conditions. The Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem further complicates matters by implying past-incompleteness for inflationary spacetimes. Physics can describe state transitions within a law-like framework; it cannot derive existence from genuine nothingness.
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This short and informal essay briefly traces my journey from atheism, back to Christian theism. Central to this reconsideration are four interconnected problems: the irreducibility of consciousness, the difficulty of grounding rationality within a purely evolutionary framework, the persistent appearance of objective moral facts, and the question of ultimate meaning.
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Abstract: This paper argues that scientism—the view that science is the only source of factual knowledge—is both false and self-defeating. Drawing on counterexamples from literary theory, history, and the axioms of mathematics and logic, the paper demonstrates that non-scientific knowledge exists. A formal logical proof shows that scientism is inconsistent with this fact. Furthermore, scientism fails its own criterion: the thesis that all knowledge must be scientifically justified cannot itself be scientifically justified, rendering it self-referentially incoherent and rationally unacceptable.
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