My article in the Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, which asks "Does the Universe Need God?" (and answers "nope"), got a bit of play last week, thanks to an article by Natalie Wolchover that got picked up by Yahoo, MSNBC, HuffPo, and elsewhere. As a result, views that are pretty commonplace around here reached a somewhat different audience. I started getting more emails than usual, as well as a couple of phone calls, and some online responses. A representative sample:
"Sean Carroll, servant of Satan..."
"God has a way of bring His judgement to those who mock Him... John Lennon stated "Christianity will end, it will disappear." Lennon was shot six times after saying that... Marilyn Monroe said to Billy Graham after Graham said the Spirit of God had sent him to preach to her: "I don't need your Jesus". A week later she was found dead in her ...
