Victor
J. Stenger
Adjunct
Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado
Professor
Emeritus of Physics and Astronomy, University of Hawaii (retired in
2000)
Research
Fellow, Center for Inquiry - Transnational CFI
Fellow
of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry CSI
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New
York Times bestseller!
No. 21 In March, 2007
God:
The
Failed Hypothesis
How Science Shows
That God Does Not
Exist
In my 2003 book Has Science Found God? I
provided
a critique of contemporary claims that science supports the existence
of God and found them inadequate. In this book, I go much
further
and argue that science makes a strong case against the existence a God
with the traditional attributes of the Judaic-Christian-Islamic God. My
argument is not based simply on the gross absence of evidence for
this God. Not only is there no evidence for God, I argue that the
evidence
we have can be used to conclude beyond a reasonable doubt that this God
does
not
exist. Not only does the universe show no evidence for God, it
looks
exactly as it would be expected to look if there is no God. In a final
chapter I show why it is preferable to live in a Godless universe.
Available at discounts from:
Prometheus
Books
Amazon.com
Slideshow. PowerPoint file of original
Keynote presentation.
Reviews
Conspicuous by
His Absence by David Ludden for eSkeptic.
Tour
de Force by Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry.
Review
by Jonathan Levinson on the Secular
Web.
Forum
on Physics and Society, Americal Physical Society, review by
Lawrence S. Lerner
Podcasts
and YouTubes
You can watch, listen to or read interviews of Vic Stenger at these
locations
among others:
Future of
Naturalism YouTube interview by Tom Flynn, editor of Free Inquiry.
Point of Inquiry
Thinking-critically
This has a You-Tube video of talk to CFI Toronto on April 5, 2007.
Start at part 3. This site also has links to other relevent videos and
podcasts.
Huntington
News Column in West Virginia web newspaper.
IQ2
Debate in Sydney, Aug. 19, 2008.
Reasonable
Doubts This podcast has the
best summary of my views.
Paperback
Edition
The paperback
edition is available. It has a foreword
by Christopher Hitchens and a new Postscript
by the author.
Go here
for more reviews and further information.
Slides from debate with Hugh Ross
ORIGINS
October 4, 2008 Skeptics Society
Conference. Cosponsored by Templeton
Foundation
Keynote presentation converted to pdf.
Reasons to Believe website.
Founded by Hugh
Ross.
Next Book (in Press)
Quantum
Gods
Creation, Chaos, and the Search for
Cosmic Consciousness
Go here for more information.
Where Can God Act? The New Quantum Theology.
Article published in Free Inquiry. Vol 28 No. 5
August/September 2008, pp. 1-36.
Work in Progress
The Battle
Against God
Science
and the New Atheism
Go here for more information.
We Have Emerged From Nothing
Op ed piece submitted to The
Sydney Morning Herald August 12, 2008.
Godless Cosmology
Contribution to Voices of Disbelief to be published
by Blackwell in 2009. Draft for comments only. Do not copy, quote, or
distribute.
Does Science Make Belief in God
Obsolete?
Essay for John
Templeton Foundation funded public discussion of religion in science.
Excerpts appearing in ads in major magazine and newspapers.
Science has not only made belief in God
obsolete. It has made it incoherent.
London
Times article
All essays can be found here
The
Comprehensible Cosmos
Where Do
The Laws of Physics Come From?
See Flyer.
The laws of physics were not handed down from above. Nor are
they somehow built into the logical structure of the universe. They are
human inventions, though not arbitrary ones. They are not restrictions
on the behavior of matter. They are restrictions on the way physicists
may describe that behavior. In order to describe an objective reality,
those descriptions cannot depend on the point of view of observers.
They
must be "point-of-view-invariant." When point-of-view invariance is
implemented,
the laws of physics follow with few additional assumptions. We live in
a comprehensible cosmos.
Review
in New
Scientist
Go to Amazon.com
for discount.
Go
here for more
information.
Slideshow. PowerPoint 1.5 Mb. Original
Keynote
presentation. Fonts may not match.
Where Do The Laws Of Physics Come From?
Paper based on book. 3.4 Mb pdf.
Shorter
paper in philsci archive.
Reality
Check
Is America a Deist Nation?
Reality Check
column for Skeptical Briefs, Vol. 18, No. 4
December 2008. For comments only. Do not quote, copy, or distribute.
To read earlier columns, go here.
A Scenario for a Natural Origin of Our
Universe
Using a Mathematical Model Based on
Established Physics and Cosmology
Published in Philo Vol.
9, No. 2, Fall-Winter 2006. pp. 93-102.
A mathematical model of the natural origin
of our universe is presented.
The model is based only on the well-established theories of general
relativity and quantum mechanics. It is not unique and no claim is
being made that this is actually how the universe came about. It is
presented to counter the assertion that science cannot provide any
plausible explanation for the origin of the universe.
Erratum: In equation 19 the
range of the variable should be 0 < a< a0 and the exponent
should be negative.
Also available on arXiv
arXiv:0710.3137 [pdf]
Previously
Published
Books
Not By
Design: The Origin of the
Universe
(1988)
Physics and
Psychics: The Search for a World
Beyond the Senses
(1990)
The Unconscious
Quantum: Metaphysics in
Modern
Physics and Cosmology
(1995)
Timeless
Reality:Symmetry,
Simplicity and Multiple Universes
(2000)
Has Science
Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe (2003)
Reviews
of Books by Victor J. Stenger
Go here.
GENERAL
TOPICS
- Physics and Metaphysics.
Information
on
my 1995 book The Unconscious Quantum:
Metaphysics
in Modern Physics and Cosmology can be found here, along
with essays and articles on quantum mysticism and quackery.
- Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics.
You can
find links here, including Super-Kamiokande
here and 1998 results from this experiment including the first
observation
that neutrinos have mass. I may have been the first one to suggest in print, in
1980, the technique that was eventually used. This page conains a link
to my paper.
- The Pierre Auger Observatory.
A second facility is to be built near Lamar, Colorado.
- Cosmology and Cosmythology.
Information
on my 1988 book Not By Design: The Origin
of
the Universe is located here along with articles,
essays,
and reviews on cosmology, creation ex nihilo.
- Anthropics. Articles
on
the
fine-tuning arguments and anthropic principle. You can create your own
universe here!
- Physics and Psychics, the Paranormal.
Information
on my 1990 book Physics and Psychics: The
Search
for a World Beyond the Senses can be found here, along
with
essays and other information on paranormal phenomena. Also look here
for
my Reality Check columns in Skeptical
Briefs.
- Science and Religion. Essays
and
other
information on connections between science and religion. See also How
to Answer Theist Arguments. This
was a seminar series for atheists and freethinkers held in
Denver
and Colorado Springs in early 2002. Go here to read the
theist-antitheist
dialogues that formed the basis of the seminars.
- Alternative
Medicine. Articles
I have written that relate to alternative medicine and quackery and
links
to other pages on the subject.
The
Hawaii
Rational Inquirer
News and commentary on issues of interest to the academic community at
the University of Hawaii as part of the local, national, and
international
academic communities. This was produced when I was at the University of
Hawaii.
This newsletter is no longer being
produced.
Link
to archive.
Recommended
links:
If you want to know a little more about me, go
here for a short biography. If you want to see my complete CV, go
here (pdf). To see what I look like now, go here. To see what I looked like in
1982,
finishing the Honolulu Marathon,
go here. On
the beach in Hawaii, December 2006.
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