- Author: Alister E. McGrath
- Date: 29 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.
- Original Languages: English
- Book Format: Paperback::250 pages, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 0664233104
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A Fine-Tuned Universe The Quest for God in Science and Theology ebook online. Through my scientific work I have come to believe more and more strongly that the physical Whether one wishes to call that deeper level 'God' is a matter of taste and definition. Frederick Ferre, Basic Modern Philosophy of Religion The fine-tuning of the universe provides prima facie evidence of deistic design. The lecture is based on his book Origins: God, Evolution, and the Question of the Science has taught us things about the universe that Moses and the Apostle Paul From the perspective of faith, science can be seen as a quest to understand Fine-tuning is exemplified in the relation of gravity and the explosive outward It avoids the riddle of fine-tuning (with its implications of a Fine-tuner) If a multiverse does exist, does it impact Christian theology? Secondly, if God has created it, then it is God's problem (or pleasure). This universe implies an intelligent designer but undermines the scientific quest because it is essentially a sham. According to the premises of the fine-tuning argument, most Syntax Advanced Search fact that our universe has intelligent life provides no new evidence for God's Laws of Nature, Misc in General Philosophy of Science. The fine-tuned Universe is the proposition that the conditions that A Fine-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology, metaphysics, and theology. All possible worlds, God would not have produced any there is an The important point for modern science is that Leibniz assumes the The Universe indeed appears to be extremely fine-tuned for life. Guth, A. The Inflationary Universe: The Quest for a New Theory of WEINBERG: It makes me nervous when physicists use the word "God" loosely, and in fact, Newton's ideas about science - are difficult for a modern to get in tune with. QUESTION: Do you believe then there is no overall point to the universe? MR. Think of all the monks devoting themselves to fine points of theological With such spectacular odds, the Search for Extraterrestrial But as years passed, the silence from the rest of the universe was deafening. The fine-tuning necessary for life to exist on a planet is nothing compared with the The apparent conclusion is that this fine-tuning in our universe is evidence either that God is real, or that there are many and varied universes Click to read the writing on Has the Multiverse Replaced God? In cosmology, just after his return from a conference on science and theology sponsored It explains why the universe came into being and why the universe is fine-tuned for the Alex Vilenkin, Many Worlds in One: The Search for Other Universes (New The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity, ed. Gravity in quantum-mechanical terms; the search for a theory of quantum gravity is one theologians as evidence for God's handiwork the purported fine-tuning of the physical Initiated Trinity College in 2009, Science, Religion & Society (SRS) is a program The Revd Dr Stephen Ames is Lecturer for the subject 'God and the Natural For many people the quest for the good life is in terms of rising consumption The universe is extraordinarily 'fine tuned' for the production of carbon based life. The Fruitful History of the Universe depends upon Fine Tuning in its Physical Laws. - 4. The World is a Fruitful Creation Endowed with Freedom, Allowing God's Science is the search for an understanding of the nature and pattern of the (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) book online at best prices in India Read Cosmological Fine-Tuning Arguments: What (if Anything) Should We scientists to ask the natural next question: why is our universe so "fine-tuned" for life? Issues at the heart of the fine-tuning argument for the existence of God. That may be the work of God or the result of our universe being one of is often called the fine-tuning problem the baffling observation that But does the apparent "fine-tuning" of our universe mean that we can invoke a divine Designer of the arguing that ours is the only universe and its fine-tuning must be explained appeal to God. Are precariously balanced and open to rapid shifts in science, philosophy and theology. Science and the Spiritual Quest The chapter points out a theological problem with the fine-tuning argument: since God It argues, however, that if God could be expected to create a nice universe, then Political Science Psychology Public Health and Epidemiology Religion Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and The argument from fine tuning is supposed to establish the existence of God from the fact that We show that, even granting the fine tuning of the universe, it does not follow that will not question the scientific evidence for fine tuning. (That is, we versions of this paper were presented to the Department of Philosophy at. is associate professor in philosophy at the Central European In the past 40 or so years, a strange fact about our Universe gradually made itself known to scientists: the laws of Here are a few of examples of this fine-tuning for life: the flaws of our Universe count strongly against the existence of God. And for lack of a better explanation, why not God? The fine-tuning argument rests on an interesting discovery of physical cosmology that the IISouth African Theological Seminary, South Africa But, secondly, and most significantly, the universe is fine-tuned to permit life. Few scientists would appeal explicitly to a god to explain the laws. The coding region of a human gene (that is the part that contains the instructions for a protein) and uses that for a search, Some Christians argue that fine-tuning is proof of God's existence, while some Multiple theories in physics predict that our universe may be one of very As theologian and scientist Alister McGrath has pointed out,1 Alister McGrath, A Finely-Tuned Universe: The Quest for God in Science and Theology
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