Taner Edis Quotes

#1. Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.

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#2. Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing.

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#3. In the popular imagination, the Big Bang is a great explosion; at one time there was nothing, then matter erupted into previously empty space. However, the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime itself, not an event in time.

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#4. Physicists use 'God' as a metaphor more often than other scientists
especially in popular writing, but in the technical literature as well. Of course, this is just a metaphor for order at the heart of confusion. A rational or aesthetic pattern underlying reality is far from a theistic God.

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#5. Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva?

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#6. To talk intelligibly about modern physics, we have to admit the possibility of uncaused events.

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#7. Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

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#8. Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.

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