Cosmology Posts

How people explain the universe and their place in it: creation stories, ancient and modern models of reality, the ether, and the invented cosmologies that shape fictional worlds.

Everyone Runs on Faith, Even Scientists

Ancient people weren't less intelligent, just less informed. On volcanoes, the problem of induction, and why faith in science resembles medieval faith.
The Ontology of Ether

Cosmology, consciousness, and unseen forces in The Bright Dark, with a creation story from the world after the apocalypse.