Mad Scientists & Simulated Multiverses

Why do you and I exist? Why was this world created? Since it was to be created, why was it not created sooner?" - Samuel Johnson

“Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity." - Jean Cocteau

THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE IN A NUTSHELL

The"anthropic principle" is a hybrid idea – part scientific hypothesis and part philosophical argument - which seeks to account for our presence in a life-sustaining universe using inference and probability.

It asks the questions: why does our universe seem fine-tuned for human life? Did an Intelligent Designer plan this universe just for us, or is it simply one of many universes in a larger multiverse, the random byproduct of an endless process of creation with no beginning and no end?

Robots, Goblins and Alien Amoeba: Fermis Paradox

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #100, expanded and revised with original illustrations. Was the Earth colonized by extraterrestrial scientists?

The Incredibly Strange Story of Intelligent Design

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #97, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of alternative human origins theories and their links to Gnostic mythology!

Antinomian Antics: Sabotaging the Matrix

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #85, expanded and revised with original illustrations. An overview of the antinomian strain of gnostic Christianity, touching upon a variety of scintillating and outrageous themes!

Pavlovs Gods

Reprint of an article originally published in New Dawn Magazine #95, expanded and revised with original illustrations. A fascinating survey of brainwashing and trauma in primitive Christianity, touching upon a number of shocking and exotic themes!