Tuesday, July 29, 2008  Does science prove God doesn't exist?
That's what they're talking about in this roundtable discussion
by Christopher Hitchens, Steven Pinker, and other notables.
Naturally, the answers are all over the map.  Since I'm on
quasi-hiatus, I don't have time to delve into this. I want to
return to the topic in depth later.  For now, I just want to
highlight a couple responses that seem right to me:  Keith Ward
says:  It is almost commonplace in physics to speak of many
space-times, or of this space-time as a 10- or 11-dimensional
reality that dissolves into topological foam below the Planck
length. This is a long way from the sensationalism of Hume and
Comte, and from the older materialism that insists on locating
every possible being within this space-time. Some modern
physicists routinely speak of realities beyond space-time (e.g.,
quantum fluctuations in a vacuum from which this space-time
originates). And some physicists, such as Henry Stapp, Eugene
Wigner, and John von Neumann, speak o