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EPISODE · May 9, 2025 · 30 MIN

Why Dawkins Is WRONG: The Universe Is NOT Queerer Than We Can Suppose w/ Brett Hall

from Conversations with Peter Boghossian

I sat down with Australian science educator Brett Hall to tackle the claim: The universe is "queerer than we can suppose." This idea stems from British scientist J.B.S. Haldane, who wrote in his 1927 book Possible Worlds and Other Essays, "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Haldane was struck by reality's strangeness, esp. in light of early 20th-century science. He thought that our minds might hit a wall when facing the universe's oddities.  Watch this episode on YouTube.

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