https://pjmedia.com/author/frank-j-tipler/feedPJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usMon, 29 Jun 2026 11:55:23 -0400<![CDATA[]]>Fri, 25 Sep 2015 18:17:05 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2015/09/25/no-atheist-scientists-are-incompetent-n5979<![CDATA[Neal Gabler, a journalist at the Norman Lear Center of the University of Southern California, recently published in the New York Times the opinion that our society “no longer thinks big,” that there are no more “intellectually challenging thoughts,” and,]]>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:29 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2011/09/04/no-more-big-ideas-try-these-on-for-size-n10954<![CDATA[The current battle for America is, as Angelo Codevilla has recently emphasized in his seminal essay, a war between the majority of Americans and America’s ruling class. This conflict is a reflection of a battle between the two greatest scientists of the past two centuries, Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein. Einstein famously claimed that “God does not play dice with the universe,” whereas Darwin claimed that God does, indeed, play dice with the universe. Codevilla pointed out the self-image of the ruling class rests on its belief that humans are the unforeseen outcome of chance mutations acted upon by natural selection. Not so. God decreed the evolution of humans before time began. The ruling class stands with Darwin. We stand with Einstein.]]>Sun, 03 Oct 2010 00:00:22 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/10/03/darwin-vs-einstein-n12672<![CDATA[In 1966, Stephen Hawking published his first &#8212; completely valid &#8212; proof for the existence of God. Over the next seven years, he followed this with even more powerful valid theorems proving God’s existence.]]>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:00:30 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/09/14/proving-the-existence-of-god-n12797<![CDATA[“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts” is how the great Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman defined science in his article “What is Science?” Feynman emphasized this definition by repeating it in a stand-alone sentence in extra large typeface in his article.  (Feynman’s essay is available online, but behind a subscription wall: The Physics Teacher (1969) volume 7, starting page 313.)]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:00:57 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/07/27/the-difference-between-true-science-and-cargo-cult-science-n13048<![CDATA[Columbia University’s President Lee Bollinger wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal advocating government subsidies of the MSM. Bollinger points out, correctly, that revenues of print newspapers and the broadcast media are declining rapidly. The MSM are indeed being bankrupted by new media and internet advertising. He argues (naturally, since he is writing his op-ed for a print newspaper) that this is a bad thing &#8212; depriving the American people of the knowledge they require to be good citizens.]]>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:22 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/07/17/columbia-u-s-bollinger-oblivious-on-msm-bailout-n13120<![CDATA[The National Academy of Sciences, in its official journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has just published a list of scientists whom it claims should not be believed on the subject of global warming. I am number 38 on the list. The list of 496 is in descending order of scientific credentials.]]>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:05:29 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/07/07/writing-for-pjm-helped-make-me-enemy-of-the-state-number-38-n13195<![CDATA[The overwhelming reaction of the sixteenth century scientific community to Copernicus’ new book On the Revolutions, first published in 1543, was contemptuous rejection.]]>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:00:35 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/03/05/the-science-is-settled-they-told-copernicus-n14257<![CDATA[I’ve always thought the IPCC should be considered science fiction rather than science. Literally. Jack Vance, described this past summer in the New York Times Magazine as “the greatest living writer of science fiction and fantasy,” used the acronym IPCC in his futuristic Demon Princes novels to represent the Interworld Police Coordination Company &#8212; sort of an intergalactic police force. Our own IPCC &#8212; the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change &#8212; does indeed hope to police the world, but aims to free the Earth of carbon dioxide instead of human (and alien) criminals.]]>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 23:00:29 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/02/22/climategate-more-science-fiction-from-the-ipcc-n14354<![CDATA[UPDATE (2/7/10): It has been called to the attention of Pajamas Media that Obama may not be a full co-author of the article in question, but merely an &#8220;analytic and research assistant,&#8221; and we are contacting the writer of  the piece below to verify this. In the meantime, read the original article by Laurence Tribe here.  More on the authorship question here. &#8212; Ed.]]>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:00:20 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2010/02/07/obama-vs-einstein-n14510<![CDATA[Last week I was on a university panel formed to debate the issue of science and religion. My argument was the same one I’ve been making for years: given the known laws of physics &#8212; in particular, general relativity (Einstein’s theory of gravity) and quantum mechanics &#8212; we have no choice but to conclude that God exists.]]>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:07:06 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/12/10/orwellian-nightmare-science-is-whatever-the-party-says-it-is-n15039<![CDATA[As readers are now aware, the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia, the main climate research center in Britain, has had 128 megabytes of secret emails and other data placed online by someone calling himself “FOIA.” A number of scientists have been trying for years to get the raw data possessed by CRU placed online, filing requests under the British Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Although required by law to release this information, CRU has not done so, or has claimed that the data were accidentally erased. We now have proof in the emails that the illegal withholding of information was intentional, and that the erasure of data was also intentional.]]>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:09:02 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/11/26/climategate-the-skeptical-scientists-view-n15170<![CDATA[Practically everyone, both left and right, considers awarding President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize to be a joke. The late John Updike wrote that the Nobel Prize in Literature was a “prank.” But practically everyone still considers the Nobel Prizes in the hard sciences to be serious prizes, awarded to scientists with genuine accomplishments.]]>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:51:28 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/10/16/is-the-physics-nobel-prize-also-becoming-a-joke-n15557<![CDATA[Biofuels are all the rage these days, as illustrated by a particularly silly article that appeared in the New York Times recently. It claimed that homebrew biodiesel could significantly reduce the U.S. demand for imported oil.]]>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:19:30 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/09/23/nuclear-energy-the-only-solution-n15757<![CDATA[]]>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:18 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/08/10/climate-data-top-secret-n16163<![CDATA[As the Senate considers the fate of the cap-and-trade bill, we should consider what it means for more carbon dioxide to be added to the atmosphere, something the bill intends to prevent.]]>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 06:59:56 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/08/05/humans-and-their-co2-save-the-planet-n16197<![CDATA[In his speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, President Barack Obama claimed: &#8220;As a student of history, I also know civilization&#8217;s debt to Islam. It was Islam &#8212; at places like Al-Azhar University &#8212; that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe&#8217;s Renaissance and Enlightenment. It was innovation in Muslim communities that developed the order of algebra; our magnetic compass and tools of navigation; our mastery of pens and printing.&#8221;]]>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:07:12 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/06/07/obama-flunks-history-at-cairo-u-n16713<![CDATA[On May 25, North Korea detonated another nuclear device. The MSM claimed that the blast equaled the Hiroshima or Nagasaki bomb. Many worried that nuclear war with Korea was imminent. Russia put its troops in the Far East on alert.]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:40:30 -0400<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/06/04/relax-the-north-korean-nuke-was-another-dud-n16739<![CDATA[The trillion-dollar plus porkapalooza Wreak-America Bill just passed by Congress will throw a huge amount of money into scientific research. This will be a good thing for certain scientists, but a very, very bad thing for science.]]>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:12:53 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/02/27/stimulating-scientists-into-proving-global-warming-n17570<![CDATA[Anthropogenic global warming (AGW) is justified via argument from authority: a consensus of &#8220;experts&#8221; holds that humans are responsible for the increase in the Earth&#8217;s average temperature during the twentieth century.]]>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:41 -0500<![CDATA[Frank J. Tipler]]>https://pjmedia.com/frank-j-tipler/2009/02/17/what-the-caine-mutiny-can-teach-us-about-global-warming-scientists-n17665