In Debate with Meyer, Matt Dillahunty Brandishes His “Surveys”

Atheism, background knowledge, Big Bang, Big Mysteries Survey, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem, Bruce Gordon, cosmology, fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, likelihoods, Matt Dillahunty, naturalism, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan Uncensored, probability theory, Richard Dawkins, spacetime, Stephen Meyer, surveys, theism, universe
Maybe Dillahunty had consulted some other survey that morning, but a “show of hands” is certainly no ground for adjudicating matters of this nature. Source
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Three Replies to the “Who Designed the Designer?” Objection

beginning, complex entities, cosmology, designer, DNA, Dunkirk, Energy, engines, evolutionary theory, fine-tuning, French recipes, infinite regress, information, initial entropy, Intelligent Design, matter, mind, neo-Darwinian mechanism, Ockham’s razor, origin of life, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer, Stonehenge, The God Delusion, The Telegraph, uncaused cause, universe, Worldview
Suppose scientists did formulate a viable materialistic explanation for the origin of life. Couldn’t someone ask for an account of the origin of matter itself? Source
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So, You Say that No Cosmologists Have Ever Claimed the Universe Came from Nothing?

Alexander Vilenkin, Boltzmann brain, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, cosmologists, cosmology, Everettian universe, fine-tuning, Hartle-Hawking model, Ijjas-Steinhardt model, inflationary string landscape, Intelligent Design, John Leslie, knowledge, Lawrence Krauss, metalevels, observer-selection effect, past-eternality, physics, quantum cosmology, quantum mechanics, Samson, scientific reasoning, Sean Carroll, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, temporal beginning, The Grand Design, The Telegraph, universe, Vilenkin model
Like mighty Samson of old, in a single-handed effort physicist Bruce Gordon responded to 1,870+ comments. Source
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New Light on Dark Energy Points to Our Privileged Space

accelerationism, Arizona, astronomy, Cambridge University, chemical composition, cosmological constant, cosmology, dark energy, Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, DESI, expansion rate, fine-tuning, galaxies, gamma ray bursts, Kitt Peak, Lambda Cold Dark Matter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, measurements, Michael Levi, Milky Way, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, optical fibers, position, standard model of cosmology, telescope, universe, velocity, ΛCDM
Modern astronomy relies not only on bigger telescopes and more sophisticated instruments, but upon computational power. Source
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The Delicate Balance of Dark Energy

A Fortunate Universe, Albert Einstein, atoms, Canceled Science, cosmology, dark energy, Edwin Hubble, Energy, expansion rate, field equations, galaxies, Guillermo Gonzalez, Jay W. Richards, life, light, photons, physics, quantum theory, space, spectroscopic instruments, stars, supernovae, The Privileged Planet, universe
The nature of dark energy brings to light one of the most powerful pieces of evidence for just how special our universe is to support life. Source
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Fantasy in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

aeons, assumptions, Bars-Steinhardt-Turok model, black holes, Boltzmann brain, bouncing cosmologies, concentric low-variance circles, conformal cyclic cosmology, consciousness, cosmic microwave background, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, dark matter, de Sitter horizon entropy, disorder, Douglas Scott, Edward Tryon, entropy, erebon, fine-tuning, gravitational wave epoch, Hawking radiation, intelligent cause, Mount Everest, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, Roger Penrose, Sean McDowell, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Stephen Hawking, Stephen Meyer, Tod equations, trilemma, universe, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis
Penrose was right, then, that fashion, faith, and fantasy have led much of modern cosmology astray. He was more right than he knew. Source
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Fashion and Faith in Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

Aeon, Baylor University, bouncing cosmologies, conformal cyclic cosmology, Conservation of Information, cosmology, Cumrun Vafa, cyclic cosmologies, dark energy, David Olive, Don Page, empirical record, erebonic field, erebons, eternal recurrence, faith, fantasy, fine-tuning, geometers, Gordon Kane, John Polkinghorne, John Roberts, John Roe, Krzysztof Meissner, Laurie Brown, Michael Denton, Michael Dickson, Northwestern University, Page curve, Paul Tod, Phil Halper, Phillip Johnson, physics, quantum theory, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dalitz, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, scientific reasoning, Sean McDowell, Simon Saunders, Stephen Meyer, The Nature of Nature, The Story of Everything, Weyl Curvature Hypothesis, William Dembski
This brings us, at last, to the remaining “cyclic” proposal, that of Roger Penrose, which is perhaps the most quixotic of all. Source
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“ID Takes Center Stage”: Brian Miller on the Meyer/Halper Debate

atheists, Battle of the Big Bang, Brian Miller, Cambridge University, Christianity, cosmology, debates, Egyptian Exodus, Faith & Science, history, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Justin Brierley, Nile, Phil Halper, philosophy, physicists, Return of the God Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society, science and faith, Stephen Meyer, theology
"Halper is one of the most formidable proponents of atheism, but he also admits that the discussion with Meyer was 'the toughest debate I’ve ever had.'" Source
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Past-Eternal Loop Quantum Cosmology Gets the Bounce

Abhay Ashtekar, Aron Wall, beginning, Big Bang, Borde-Guth-Vilenkin, bounce, conformal cyclic cosmology, cosmic aeons, cosmic inflation, cosmology, cyclic cosmologies, entropy, flatness problem, geodesics, gravity, horizon problem, Kinney-Stein proof, Kinney-Stein result, loop quantum cosmology, Martin Bojowald, mechanism, Mithani-Vilenkin instability, Mithani-Vilenkin instability proof, Penrose-Hawking singularity theorems, physics, quantum effects, quantum singularity theorem, quantum-geometric bounce, Roger Penrose, scientific reasoning, Second Law of Thermodynamics, singularity theorems, Tolman entropy problem, universe
Oscillating universes have been discussed in philosophy from time immemorial and in mathematical cosmology for over one hundred years. Source
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Cosmos and Life: Everything Points to a Paradigm Shift

biology, Canceled Science, Charles Darwin, cosmology, documentary, geocentric model, Intelligent Design, John von Neumann, laboratory, lies, materialistic worldview, natural causes, naturalistic universe, origin of life, planetary orbits, puddle, reality, scientific knowledge, solar system, spontaneous generation, stagnant water, swamp, The Story of Everything, truth
Why would most people avoid drinking stagnant water from a puddle or a swamp? Probably not for fear of ingesting some dissolved salts or minerals. Source
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