> Lots and lots of good blogs and comments here at the site page.
> This whole issue confuses me as I am constrained by my evolved brain.
> I consider this question from my engineering background, and immediately
> go critical and feel my limits. I refuse to personify the situation (putative
> "gods") as that is simply one of those evolved legacy methods. I then
> request special treatment (ala the beautiful brain guy, or the putative
> channelers), but so far, no go. The issues are always there, and I review them
> daily.
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> Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?  
> Sean at 10:39 am, August 30th, 2007
> The best talk I heard at the International Congress of Logic Methodology and
> Philosophy of Science in Beijing was, somewhat to my surprise, the Presidential
> Address by Adolf Grünbaum. I wasn’t expecting much, as the genre of Presidential
> Addresses by Octogenarian Philosophers is not one noted for its moments of
> soaring rhetoric. I recognized Grünbaum’s name as a philosopher of science, but
> didn’t really know anything about his work. Had I known that he has recently
> been specializing in critiques of theism from a scientific viewpoint (with
> titles like “The Poverty of Theistic Cosmology“), I might have been more ...