Luke’s Posts

Here are a few of Luke’s favourite blog posts.

The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life

• Comment on “Science Increasingly Makes the Case for God”
• What to Read: The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent life
• Fine-Tuning and the Myth of “One variable at a time”
• Not So Sharp: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Robert Klee
• The Traps of WAP and SAP
• In Defence of The Fine-Tuning of the Universe for Intelligent Life. A response to Victor Stenger’s reply to my fine-tuning paper.
• Terms and Conditions – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Ikeda and Jefferys (Part 1)
  • What do you know? – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Ikeda and Jefferys (Part 2)
• Probably Not – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Richard Carrier (Part 1)
  • What Chance Looks Like – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Richard Carrier (Part 2)
  • Christmas Tripe – A Fine-Tuned Critique of Richard Carrier (Part 3)
• What Chances Me? A Fine Tuned Critique of Victor Stenger (Part 1)
  • No Faith In MonkeyGod: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Victor Stenger (Part 2)
• Dirty Cheating Texan! A Fine-Tuned Critique of William Lane Craig (Part 1)
  • Is that really necessary? A Fine-Tuned Critique of William Lane Craig (Part 2)
• The Shrinking Quarter: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Fred Adams
• Fishing while the world burns: A Fine-Tuned Critique of P.Z. Myers
• Of Credentials and Confusion: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Hector Avalos
• Any Claim Will Do: A Fine-Tuned Critique of Hugh Ross
• Are The Dice Loaded?

Science, History and Philosophy

• Sean Carroll vs William Lane Craig: A Preview
  • Carroll vs. Craig (2): How to Debate WLC
  • Carroll vs. Craig (3): On Contingency
  • Did the Universe Have a Beginning? – Carroll vs Craig Review (Part 1)
  • Carroll’s five replies to the fine-tuning argument: Number 1
  • Carroll’s five replies to the fine-tuning argument: 1a. Aside on Naturalism
• Neil deGrasse Tyson on Newton (Part 1)
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson on Newton (Part 2)
• What Aristotle Got Right
• A universe from nothing? What you should know before you hear the Krauss-Craig debate
• Derren Brown doesn’t find God – Fear and Faith
• Why science cannot explain why anything at all exists
• The Universe you’ve read about: Solar Eclipses and the Numinous
• Of Nothing, More Sweet Nothings …
• Misunderstanding Michael Reiss
  • Harry Kroto and Michael Reiss

Astronomy, Cosmology and Physics

• Doing cosmology with a brain
• Deducing the Stars
• Fun with Wind-Resistance (Part 1),
  Part 2,
  Part 3,
  Part 4
• A Better Roller Coaster Simulator
• Ivan Karamazov and Euclid
• Popular Cosmology: what to read
• Life, planets and the import/export business
• Astronauts don’t float
• Jumping in a falling lift
• The LHC and the End of the World
• Big Bad Black Holes
• Did the universe just get less weird?
• Getting your brain around the Universe
• Special Relativity’s closet

Public Speaking for Scientists

• 1: Introduction
• 2: How Comedians Do It
• 2a: Jokes
• 3: How Political Leaders Do It
• 4: How Social Activists Do It
• 5: How Preachers Do It
• 6: How Educators (should) Do It
• 7: Powerpoint

Mathematics and Probability

• 10 Nice things about Bayes’ theorem
  • Bayes’ Theorem: what is this “background information”?
  • Probability Myth: we’ve observed X, so the probability of X is one
  • Bayes’ Theorem: Certainty Starts in Here
  • Bayes’ Theorem: Ad Hoc-ness and Other Details
• Classify or Measure?
• Appealing to Authority: A User’s Guide
• The Bayesian Utility of Derren Brown
• What is Tuesday Boy telling us?
• Losing on a Winner
• The Surprise Quiz Paradox

Book Reviews

• Bad Science, by Ben Goldacre
• The Cosmic Landscape, by Leonard Susskind
• Extreme Cosmos by Bryan Gaensler
• The Decisive Moment, by Jonah Lehrer
• God’s Philosophers, by James Hannam
• Stalin – The Court of the Red Tsar, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
• The Stars in Their Courses, by James Jeans
• Why Evolution is True, by Jerry Coyne

Miscellany

• Finding Science in the Bible
• In Defence of Macksville
• How I’d run the cricket world cup
• Boltzmann, Philosopher
• “We Did This To Ourselves”
• The Placebo Effect: It’s All In Your Head
• The Imperfection of the Musical Scale
• The Early Bird Writes The Words
• A Lesson in Neurology from Jimi Hendrix

Introduction to Batting in Cricket: Mechanics, Visual Strategy and Psychology

• Batting 101: Don’t Watch The Ball
• Batting 102: Visual Speedometer
• Batting 103: Swing More Than The Bat
• Batting 104: A Concentration Model
• Batting 105: Don’t Think About It
• Batting 106: How To Build A Routine

 

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