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An artist's exploration of Philosophy, Science, Psychology, UFOs, extraterrestrial life, NDEs, conspiracy theories, etc. with whatever meager critical thinking skills he has at the time…

Book Review: If the Universe Is Teaming With Aliens… Where is Everybody?

By kenraines July 25, 2021 Astronomy, Book Review, Extraterrestrial Life, Fermi Paradox No Comments

A review of If the Universe is Teaming With Aliens…Where Is Everybody? Seventy-Five Solutions to the Fermi Paradox and the Problem of Extraterrestrial Life by Stephen Webb. Second edition, 2015 Springer. . The Fermi Paradox: Where Is Everybody? This book documents and comments on 75 potential solutions or answers to the Fermi Paradox on why we haven’t found proof of intelligent, extraterrestrial life yet. The Fermi Paradox is based on the following generally accepted views on the likelihood of ETI (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) in the Milky Way galaxy: The Milky Way contains about two hundred billion stars. These presumably have planets…

Book Review: Infinity, Causation, & Paradox by Alexander Pruss

By kenraines August 14, 2020 Alexander Pruss, Book Review, Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion No Comments

The book, Infinity, Causation, & Paradox by Alexander Pruss, was published by Oxford University Press in 2018. I just finished reading it as my first book by this author. I knew of him via other philosophers’ dealing with his work and through reading his blog. My first impressions of him from reading his blog was that he was a natural born philosopher, an original thinker, creative, and a top level contemporary philosopher. Or as the philosopher William Lane Craig described him, “scary smart.” Background on the author: Pruss is a theist philosopher and currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University…