Some atheists try to avoid the conclusion that God exists by saying the universe needs no explanation—that it’s simply a brute fact. In this episode of Ready Reasons, I show how this view is self-defeating and thus...
Can the universe be a mere brute fact? Can we say, “The universe just exists and that’s that—it has no explanation at all”? Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology, thinks so. In a recent interview with Phil Torres at salon.com,...