A Significant Fraction Of Evangelical Voters Appear

The Illusion Of Purpose And Design Is Perhaps The Most Pervasive Illusion About Nature That Science Has To Confront On A Daily Basis.

Every Atom In Your Body Came From A Star That Exploded. And The Atoms In Your Left Hand Probably Came From A Different Star Than Your Right Hand. It Really Is The Most Poetic Thing I Know About Physics: You Are All Stardust.

Now, Since The Time Of Newton There Had Been A Debate About Whether Light Was A Wave - That Is, A Traveling Disturbance In Some Background Medium - Or A Particle, Which Travels Regardless Of The Presence Of A Background Medium. The Observation Of Maxwell That Electromagnetic Waves Must Exist And That Their Speed Was Identical To That Of Light Ended The Debate: Light Was An Electromagnetic Wave.

Metaphysical Speculation Is Independent Of The Physical Validity Of The Big Bang Itself And Is Irrelevant To Our Understanding Of It.

Nothing Can Create Something All The Time Due To The Laws Of Quantum Mechanics, And It's - It's Fascinatingly Interesting.