Victor John Stenger foi um físico de partículas, filósofo, escritor e cético religioso estadunidense.
Depois de uma carreira como um cientista de pesquisa no campo da física de partículas, Stenger passou a ser associado ao Novo Ateísmo e também por ser autor de livros de divulgação científica. Ele publicou doze livros para o público em geral sobre física, mecânica quântica, cosmologia, filosofia, religião, ateísmo e pseudociência, incluindo best-seller de 2007 God: The Failed Hypothesis. Seu último livro foi God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Cosmos . Ele também era colunista científico de destaque regular no Huffington Post.Stenger era um ativista pela remoção da influência da religião na pesquisa científica, atividade comercial e no processo de decisão política, além de ter cunhado a frase "A ciência voa até a Lua. A religião voa em construções". Wikipedia
“Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.”
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.128-129
Contexto: We have yet to encounter an observable astronomical phenomenon that requires a supernatural element to be added to a model in order to describe the event... Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
“Infinity…is used in physics simply as a shorthand for "a very big number.””
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.123
“The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent.”
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.133
Contexto: The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent. As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." [... ] In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
“The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.”
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.133
Contexto: The transition of nothing-to-something is a natural one, not requiring any agent. As Nobel laureate physicist Frank Wilczek has put it, "The answer to the ancient question 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' would then be that 'nothing' is unstable." [... ] In short, the natural state of affairs is something rather than nothing. An empty universe requires supernatural intervention--not a full one. Only by the constant action of an agent outside the universe, such as God, could a state of nothingness be maintained. The fact that we have something is just what we would expect if there is no God.
“Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.”
In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009), 59. As attributed on a web page using the quote as a title at web site of Richard Dawkins Foundation.
Variante: Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
[02/19/2013, Science and Religion Cannot Be Reconciled, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victor-stenger/religion-and-science-_b_2719280.html]
In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science (2012)
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.129
In God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion (2012)
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.126-127
Victor J. Stenger livro God: The Failed Hypothesis
Fonte: God: The Failed Hypothesis (2007), Chapter 4: 'Cosmic Evidence', p.117
“The universe is not fine-tuned to us; we are fine-tuned to our particular universe.”
In The Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us
