{"id":290,"date":"2005-11-08T19:48:41","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T00:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=290"},"modified":"2005-11-28T17:02:59","modified_gmt":"2005-11-28T22:02:59","slug":"krauss-new-york-times-essay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Krauss New York Times Essay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Krauss has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/08\/science\/08essay.html\">essay in today&#8217;s New York Times<\/a> about science, religion and string theory, covering much the same material discussed here in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=286\">recent posting<\/a>.   There are postings about this from Mark Trodden at <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2005\/11\/07\/krauss-on-intelligent-design-religion-and-string-theory\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a> and Lubos Motl <a href=\"http:\/\/motls.blogspot.com\/2005\/11\/krauss-on-science-and-religion.html\">on his blog<\/a>.  In comments at Cosmic Variance, Lubos tries to make the rather bizarre claim that the status of the theory of evolution is much the same as that of string theory.  I don&#8217;t notice any string theorists writing in there to tell him that he is full of it.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the real world, the Kansas Board of Education has voted to <a href=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/content\/article\/2005\/11\/08\/kansasschoolboard.html\">change the definition of science<\/a>.  Krauss has been very involved in this controversy in recent years, fighting the good fight against Intelligent Design and Creationism.  I suspect he&#8217;s all too aware of the danger posed by string theorists like Lubos intent on muddying the waters about the question of what is solid, testable science, and what isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>: Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/cosmicvariance.com\/2005\/11\/09\/from-the-sublime-to-the-ridiculous\/\">Cosmic Variance<\/a>, see some of the reaction Krauss is getting to his criticisms of string theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Krauss has an essay in today&#8217;s New York Times about science, religion and string theory, covering much the same material discussed here in a recent posting. There are postings about this from Mark Trodden at Cosmic Variance and Lubos &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/?p=290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.math.columbia.edu\/~woit\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}