"Assuming that time and money were not obstacles, what area of scientific research, outside of your own discipline, would you most like to explore? Why?"
I don't have to even think twice about this one - if I wasn't spending my time stalking the beast Cancer I would have my head in the stars, pursuing the answers to questions no one has ever been able to answer. For me, Cosmology (as compared to Cosmetology) is the most exciting field outside of medicine that exists, if it does truly exist. The universe, that is. Not that I think it doesn't exist - I'm just a masochist for ontological paradoxes.
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I'm currently reading Scott Aikin's and Robert Talisse's book Reasonable Atheism: A Moral Case for Respectful Disbelief. I'm finding it a strange experience.
A reader sent me a link to *yet another* purported [Bayesian argument for the existence of god][unwin], this time by a physicist named Stephen Unwin. It's actually very similar to Swinburne's argument, which I discussed back at the old home of this blog.
"Truth," the late philosopher Richard Rorty explained, "is what your contemporaries let you get away with." It has been observed that his contemporaries did not, as a general proposition, let him get away with that understanding of truth.
I am slowly working on an article for Skeptical Inquirer about the ways in which religious apologists use mathematical arguments in their rhetoric.