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.
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.
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?
Owen Gingerich saw God in the fine-tuned universe. Steven Weinberg saw pointlessness. Both were Nobel-caliber astronomers. Both were right about different things.
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.
Somewhere in the infrared silence between stars, a telescope the size of a tennis court…