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Apr 6, 2011 · Martin Rees: I've got no religious beliefs at all – interview. Ian Sample, science correspondent. Ian Sample spoke to the astronomer royal Martin Rees on Tuesday before the announcement...
- Templeton Prize 2011
This is a transcript of the speech made by Martin Rees at a...
- Science Prizes
Martin Rees is the latest recipient of the Templeton Prize,...
- Martin Rees and The Templeton Travesty
Martin Rees, an outstanding scientist who is unfortunately...
- Templeton Prize 2011
Jun 19, 2017 · The central problem of religious dogma, of course, is that the mythology of “God” offers a single cohesive story that contends to explain all of “Creation” — a theory that claims its truthfulness not by empirical evidence but by insistent assertion.
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Rees married the anthropologist Caroline Humphrey in 1986. He is an atheist but has criticized militant atheists for being too hostile to religion. Rees is a lifelong supporter of the Labour Party, but has no party affiliation when sitting in the House of Lords. See also. Particle chauvinism; References
Oct 27, 2022 · One of the world's leading cosmologists, Lord Rees is renowned for his pioneering work on galaxy formation, quasars, black holes and the origin of the universe. His early study of the distribution of quasars helped to discredit the formerly accepted “steady-state” theory of the evolution of the universe.
May 2, 2024 · Martin Rees, English cosmologist and astrophysicist who was a main expositor of the big-bang theory of the origins of the universe. In Our Final Century (2003; also called Our Final Hour), he argued that humankind had only a 50 percent chance of surviving until the year 2100.
Jun 19, 2017 · Legendary Cosmologist Martin Rees on Science, Religion, and the Future of Post-Human Intelligence. “Fundamental physics shows how hard it is for us to grasp even the simplest things in the world. That makes you quite skeptical whenever someone declares he has the key to some deeper reality.”
Jun 19, 2017 · For as long as modern science has existed, scientists have attempted to answer such unanswerable questions by trying to either reconcile science and religion, like Galileo did in defending his theories against the Inquisition and Ada Lovelace did in considering the interconnectedness of the universe, or at least to relegate them to different ...
