Event: Presentation by Victor Stenger
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2007
Presentation 1: Lower Level of the Students’ Centre, 1265 Military Trail, University of Toronto at Scarborough. This presentations starts at 2:00 p. m.
Presentation 2: The George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church St., in downtown Toronto, Room 103, Ryerson University. This presentations starts at 7:30 p. m.

Via the Centre for Inquiry:

Poised to become the next big book defending atheism, Victor Stenger’s God: The Failed Hypothesis is a physicist’s response to the idea that science has found God.

By using five principal conditions for evaluating extraordinary claims, Stenger treats the existence of God like any other scientific hypothesis, stipulating that God should be detectable by scientific means, given that he is supposed to play a central role in the operation of the universe and in the lives of humans. According to Richard Dawkins, “Darwin chased God out of his old haunts in biology, and he scurried for safety down the rabbit hole of physics. The laws and constants of the universe, we were told, are too good to be true: a setup, carefully tuned to allow the eventual evolution of life. It needed a good physicist to show us the fallacy, and Victor Stenger lucidly does so.”

Victor Stenger is emeritus professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Hawaii and adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado. He is the author of Has Science Found God?, The Comprehensible Cosmos, Timeless Reality, The Unconscious Quantum, Physics and Psychics, and Not by Design.