Victor John Stenger war ein US-amerikanischer Elektroingenieur, Physiker, Astronomieprofessor und atheistischer Aktivist. Bekanntheit erlangte er für seine Kritik an sogenannten Pseudowissenschaften und vor allem am religiös motivierten Intelligent Design. Wikipedia
“Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.”
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.128-129
Kontext: We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that requires a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the event... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
“Infinity…is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.””
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.123
“The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.”
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.133
Kontext: The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent. As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." [... ] In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
“The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.133
Kontext: The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent. As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." [... ] In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
“Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.”
In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009), 59. As attributed on a web page using the quote as a title at web site of Richard Dawkins Foundation.
Variante: Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
[02/19/2013, Science and Religion Cannot Be Reconciled, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/religion-and-science-_b_2719280.html]
In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (2012)
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.129
In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2012)
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.126-127
Victor J. Stenger buch God: The Failed Hypothesis
Quelle: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.117
“The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.”
In The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us
