Paul Davies
(1946-)
Paul Davies is an English physicist, a broadcaster, a professor in Arizona State University, and the director of BEYOND: Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science.
His first book
The Physics of Time Asymmetry, in 1974, explored the "arrow of time."
He received the Templeton Prize in 1995.
In 2005, he became the chair of the Post-Detection Science and Technology Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics supporting the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
His 2007 article in
The New York Times, "
Taking Science on Faith" argued that the faith scientists have in the immutability of physical laws has origins in Christian theology. It sparked a controversy involving Richard Dawkins, Jerry Coyne, Nathan Myhrvold, Lawrence Krauss, Scott Atran, Sean Carroll, Jeremy Bernstein, PZ Myers, Lee Smolin, John Horgan, and Alan Sokal.
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