Down is the new up. -- Thom Yorke of Radiohead With firm conviction, what is objectively bad the modern world now calls good. Abortion, sexual immorality, gender identity disorders, etc., are all things hailed as good (even virtuous!) and are hills that people are...
Rebuttal of Carroll’s Brute Fact Hypothesis, Part 2
This is part 2 in this series of posts rebutting Sean Carrol’s recent paper titled Why is there Something, Rather Than Nothing?. In part 1 we were introduced to Sean Carroll, a cosmologist who wrote a philosophy paper arguing that the universe can exist as a brute...
Why is There Something, Rather Than Nothing? A Rebuttal of Sean Carroll’s Brute Facts Hypothesis – Part 1
Sean Carroll is a modern cosmologist who recently released a paper titled Why is there Something, Rather Than Nothing?[1]. Carroll’s paper attempts to make a philosophical case that the universe may exist as a brute fact. The opening paragraph of his paper states this...
Hello World
In the Beginning… The Folly of the Cross blog is an attempt to help me collect my thoughts and systematize them into a written form. I plan to cover the big topics; life, the universe, and particularly God. The latter will particularly be from the perspective of...