Pale Fires at the Edge of Everything
JWST keeps finding massive, fully formed galaxies in an era when the universe was too young to have built them. The Lambda-CDM standard model is under pressure — and the data is only getting sharper.
God in the Equation by Corey S. Powell — When Science Stopped Denying It Had a God
A review of Corey Powell’s God in the Equation — the book that traces how cosmology, dark energy, and Einstein’s Lambda became the foundation of a new secular religion.
The Debate That Never Happened But Should Have: Carl Sagan and John Polkinghorne Across the Cosmos
Carl Sagan and John Polkinghorne both stared into the same cosmos and drew opposite conclusions. Here’s the debate they never had — but absolutely should have.
The Pale Blue Dot Meets the Burning Bush: Carl Sagan and Pope John Paul II’s Documented Intellectual Convergence and What It Reveals About the Universe’s Two Great Questioners
In 1990, Carl Sagan and Pope John Paul II became unlikely allies on the environment. Their cosmologies couldn’t be more different. Which one prepared us better for cosmic insignificance?
The Astronomer Who Prayed and the Astronomer Who Didn’t: The Documented Intellectual Collision Between Owen Gingerich of Harvard and Steven Weinberg of Texas That Played Out Across Three Decades of Scientific Conferences
Owen Gingerich saw God in the fine-tuned universe. Steven Weinberg saw pointlessness. Both were Nobel-caliber astronomers. Both were right about different things.
Atom by Lawrence Krauss — You Are Made of Dead Stars, and That Should Change Everything
A review of Lawrence Krauss’s Atom — the biography of an oxygen atom from the Big Bang to life on Earth, and what it means that science, not religion, tells us who we are.
