God Would Not Create Things That Way? Nature Alone Could Not

Charles Darwin, Chicago, chimps, Christianity for Doubters, common design, consciousness, DNA, echolocation, elementary particles, Evolution, Faith & Science, Field Museum of Natural History, fossil skulls, Genesis, George Gaylord Simpson, history of life, humans, Intelligent Design, modern humans, nature, New York Times News Service, nuclear power plants, Origin of Species, paleontologists, paleontology, physics, primates, Smart Phones, supercomputers, Technology, Why Evolution Is Different
Why does God remain backstage, hidden from view, working behind the scenes while we act out our parts in the human drama? 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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Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, Faith & Science, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, Meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, physics, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe
The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. 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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Halper and Meyer on Inscrutable Dice and Cosmological Fine-Tuning

Anthony Aguirre, Battle of the Big Bang, beans, Caltech, Christopher Hitchcock, cosmos, Daniel Díaz-Pachón, debates, dice, dimensional analysis, fine-tuning, Frank Wilczek, Fred Adams, general relativity, Intelligent Design, Justin Brierley, Luke Barnes, Martin Rees, Max Tegmark, normalizability, Ola Hössjer, parameter space, Phil Halper, physics, Planck scale, posterior probability, prior probability, probability, Robert Marks, Robin Collins, Standard Model, Stephen Meyer, theism, __featured1
Phil Halper has argued against a position that no one holds, and his argument as a whole lays claim to the very capacity his objection denies. Source
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, and Science’s Next Great Frontier

academics, accident, Ann Gauger, Artificial Intelligence, atheist scientists, atheists, beauty, Carl Sagan, cosmos, documentary, domino effect, Faith & Science, galaxy, Guillermo Gonzalez, Intelligent Design, interviews, James T. Kirk, Jay Richards, Lawrence Krauss, nanotechnology, Neil deGrasse Tyson, physics, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Star Trek, The Privileged Planet, The Story of Everything, universe, William Shatner
The implications of such paradigm-altering evidence are well articulated by William Shatner in his interview. Source
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Astrophysicist Sarah Salviander on “Cosmic Signposts” Pointing to Intelligent Design

astronomy, astrophysicists, Atheism, Carl Sagan, cosmology, cosmos, expansion rate, Faith & Science, fine-tuning, fundamental constants, gravity, initial conditions, Intelligent Design, Luke Barnes, morality, movies, nuclear force, physics, Sarah Salviander, science fiction, scientific research, stars, The Story of Everything, UC San Diego, universe, __featured2
Dr. Salviander was deeply influenced by science fiction and by the popular astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan. Source
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