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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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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Those Demons at the Core: Taut New Thriller by Geoffrey Simmons

9/11 attack, arts, Chicago, CN Tower, demon core, demons, Em Lattimer, ethics, Geoffrey Simmons, Glenn Winders, Hiroshima, Intelligent Design, Japan, John Zmirak, Los Angeles, Manhattan Project, new york, novels, nuclear weapons, Ontario, Oppenheimer’s Demon, Ottawa, physics, September, thrillers, Toronto, United States, Washington, World Trade Center
Author Simmons is, among other things, a disaster preparedness expert. The outcome here would make 9/11 seem negligible. 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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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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