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Abstract for an Upcoming Paper Developing my Model of Modal Realism

I’ve recently submitted an abstract for Glasgow University’s Philosophy of Religion Conference concerning my recent research of the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum physics along with my secondary...

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The Affirmations and Denials Directory

I’ve decided to make a referent post that outlines my position on many things philosophical, theological, scientific, biblical, and other. I have many similar directories: Molinism, Multiverse,...

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Max Tegmark and The Fluke Explanation for Life

I’m reading Max Tegmark’s newest and only book Our Mathematical Universe, which I will be reviewing for an academic journal. I wanted to share, as much as I could without copyright infringement an...

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Q&A 38: The Infinite Set of You in the Multiverse

Question Dear Mr. Andrews, I came upon your blog and I shall spend the better part of the night reading it, and I have a few questions about the multiverse that I don’t understand. First off, why is it...

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A List of Physical Values and What Happens When Changed

Constants of Space and Time. Planck length (the minimum interval of space), lp = 1.62 x 10-33 cm. Planck time (the minimum interval of time), tp = 5.39 x 10-44 sec. Planck’s constant (this determines...

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Discovery of quantum vibrations in ‘microtubules’ inside brain neurons...

The pre-Socratics have a habit of coming back to the moderns and contemporaries and saying, “I told you so.” This is something Dave Beck and I argue in regards to the multiverse (or many worlds) in a...

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Q&A 41: Doubt and the Gospel

Question: Hello Max Andrews, My name is David Hernandez and I’m a young minister with interest in theology and a keen interest in philosophy. First, I’d like to thank you for your website, it’s been a...

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Philosophical 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...

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Many 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...

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A New Cosmological Argument: EPS 2014

This year’s Evangelical Philosophical Society Annual Conference will be in San Diego, California, USA (500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, California 92108). I will be presenting from 0920 to 1000 on...

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Eavesdropping Ep10: Science and Pseudoscience

In this episode I discuss criteria for making the demarcation between science and pseudoscience–that is, what we should consider science and non-science. I use an example of “Creation Science” as an...

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The Podcast Archive

I’ve created an archive to store my Eavesdropping podcasts from SoundCloud and have made them available in the Archive Tab just below the site banner. Once I add a podcast I’ll be updating the archive...

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VIDEO: The Thomisitic Abductive Cosmological Argument (TACA)

November 19-21 was this year’s annual Evangelical Philosophical Society’s conference. I coauthored a paper with Dave Beck of Liberty University. This is the third year in a row I’ve had a paper...

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Legitimate Models for an Infinite-Past Universe

The Borde-Guth-Vilenkinb Theorem states that any universe, which has, on average, a rate of expansion greater 0 that system had to have a finite beginning. This would apply in any multiverse scenario...

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New eBook Release: The Philosophy, Theology, and Science of Molinism

My newest eBook, book 2 in the series of Molinism eBooks, The Spread of Molinism, is now available for Amazon purchase. I’m very grateful to Ken Keathley, author of Salvation and Sovereignty: A...

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Discovery Institute’s Summer Seminar 2015

The Discovery Institute’s next summer seminars are from July 10-18, 2015 in Seattle.  I attended the seminar in 2010.  Once you’re labeled as an ID proponent your academic career is potentially slowed...

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Kuhn on Scientific Paradigms

Kuhn on Scientific Revolutions and Paradigm Shifts Scientific revolutions are here taken to be those non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by...

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Can Laws of Nature Evolve?

Given that we live in an evolutionary universe where stars are born from a cosmic dust and the gravitational affects on such dust particles form intense, massive, hot stars and where life can evolve...

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Explanation, Teleology, and Efficient Causation in Science

Inference to the Best Explanation Revisited (Our Method of Inquiry) When using certain theoretical terms, as in the inference to quarks, the epistemic process cannot restrict explanations to only...

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What is a Scientific Explanation?

Scientific Explanation If scientific explanation is causal explanation, and causation is law-governed sequence, then it follows that scientific explanations require laws.  However, a problem with this...

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