Nicholas Copernicus was never supposed to be a revolutionary in the field of revolutions. This Polish merchant's son, groomed to be a church canon, was not the sort of man to be running around changing the world; he was not even published until near his death, in 1543. Copernicus had been pre...

The full implications of Copernicanism could be considered to have only emerged within the last century, sustained by the arrival of Quantum Mechanics and the breakdown of religious, political and ideological eschatology. Its principles can be seen to lead directly to the homogeneous and isotropic F...

The Kalam Cosmological Argument The major modern proponent of the 'kalam cosmological argument', William Lane Craig, sets out the argument as follows: 1. Whatever began to exist has a cause of its existence. 2. The universe began to exist. 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause of...