Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and GodIs belief in God a reasonable option in the light of modern cosmology? Or have religious beliefs been ruled out by science? Or should we rethink the connection between these two human enterprises - perhaps even considering them as unrelated? |
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PART | 15 |
QUANTUM COSMOLOGIES AND THE | 41 |
COSMOLOGY WITH OR WITHOUT GOD | 77 |
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Anthropic Principle approach argue argument assume assumptions asymmetry Barrow and Tipler beginning Big Bang model Big Bang theory billion black hole boundary condition Christian coherence complete concept consonance context contingency cosmological argument cosmologists creatio ex nihilo creation Creator critical critical realism defend density described developed dimension discussed diversity Dyson emphasizes energy entities entropy eschatology eternal evolution example existence explanation finite Frank Tipler future galaxies Genesis Gilkey God's gravity Hartle-Hawking Hawking Hawking's hence human ideas implies infinite initial conditions interpretation knowledge Linde metaphysical natural theology nature notion observed Omega Point ontological Pannenberg particles Penrose philosophical physics possible present process theology proposal quantum cosmology quantum theory radiation reality relation relativity religious scientific Second Law seems similar Singularity space spacetime stars Steady State theory temperature theologians theology and science Thermodynamics timeless transcendence understanding understood unity velocity verse wave function Weak Anthropic whole Wolfhart Pannenberg