Monday, August 24, 2015

Teilhard, Gettier, and Tipler

Circular Argument 24 December 2002 - Published on Amazon.com
I enjoy having my brain stretched, so, with that goal in mind, I picked up Dr. Frank J. Tipler's "Physics of Immortality."
Frank Tipler was a well respected physicist before this book, and is still regarded as an expert in the field of quantum cosmology. He is not the first world-class scientist to take a flyer on an implausible idea. I think it's interesting that in the book he condemns Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit paleantologist from whom he took the term "omega point" for doing precisely what Tipler does in this book. Teilhard did outstanding work investigating early hominid primates in Asia before he began working on his "omega point" speculations, which attempted to wed evolutionary biology and theology, and then began to believe that his speculations were scientific facts. Tipler has been caught in the same trap.

Why do we so often misunderstand one another? Derrida on communication http://t.co/vnrMjWAAe5
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The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human beings in mind. http://t.co/bkArCFriw3

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