“The evidence is pretty incontrovertible that he doesn’t exist”:

[rug]

8. I like Carroll and I expect I'll like this book.

The arguments and conclusions are interesting to contemplate - and I expect I'll hear some lucid scientific explanations along the way.

Salon's headline is - again - misleading and sensational. The problem I've found with books like this, particularly those of Krausss, is they tend to make completely unsupported leaps into areas which they can not possibly have an answer.

One reason I like Carroll is he admits as much, as he did in this interview:

So a better question is: what does our best understanding of the laws of physics tell us about the origin of the universe, and why it might exist at all? The answer is “not much.” This is a case where we have to be humble. The universe might have had a beginning, or it might have existed forever, we just don’t know. There’s certainly no reason to think that there was something that “caused” it; the universe can just be.