How Does Science Add to Knowledge?: Popper's 20th-century View of How Science Works
Inductivism remains the dominant view of how science works until the 20th century when Albert Einstein proposes a new approach to gravity. This and early work in quantum mechanics prompts philosopher Karl Popper to propose a radically new view of ho...
Does God Exist?: Does the Big Bang Prove or Disprove the Existence of God?
The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the Big Bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter in all direct...
Is Time Real?: Contrasting Perspectives on Time
J.M.E. McTaggart considered time unreal. "Past, present, and future," he said," are incompatible determinations.... No event can be more than one." Does the present enjoy privileged status in terms of its reality, or is it a subjective illusion of h...
Is Time Real?: Scientific Theories of Time: Albert Einstein
In his first theory of relativity developed in 1905 Einstein came up with the idea that both space and time are relative to the state of motion of the observer. Time is not as absolute and universal as we thought;it can be changed by motion. Each ob...
Do We Have Free Will?: Existential View. The
Not swayed by science or psychological motivation, Jean-Paul Satre proposes that people actively determine their nature through their choices and actions. They make implicit free choices that are compatible with their environment, their family or th...
Does God Exist?: Problem of Evil and God's Existence, The
A question that haunts many people is how can evil exist in a world where an all-perfect, all-powerful Being also resides? Seven eminent scholars share a thoughtful range of responses to this question, from it is "blasphemous to suppose that we can ...