41. Question Home: Does God Exist?
Topic Sets
Big Bang Cosmology
and Theology... (14 topics)
Theology and Science:
Current Issues and Future Directions... (R.
Russell , 69 topics)
Interviews
The
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42. Divine Action Topic: Alston, W. Divine Action, Human Freedom, and the ...
then turns to
physical cosmology and its possible bearing on divine action. The choice between cosmological models such
as the Big Bang , the oscillating universe and inflation makes little difference
to Alstons position in general,
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43. Divine Action Topic: Happel, Stephen. Metaphors and Time Asymmetry: Co...
an atemporal perspective on cosmology while
others see the universe in terms of a temporal narrative such as the Big
Bang . The difference is due less to
physics or mathematics, Happel argues, than to the presuppositions one holds
about metaphor.
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44. Divine Action Topic: Quantum Theory
Relativity and Cosmology."
Ellis, George
F.R. Quantum Theory and the Macroscopic
World."
Ellis, George F.
R. The Theology of the Anthropic Principle."
Grib,
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45. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Weak Anthropic Principle
with a conventional Big Bang cosmology ,
it still gives the impression that our existence is an accident of vanishingly
small probability. Thus, in practice, it usually appears in conjunction with
a cosmological model which suggests that
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46. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: Evolution as a Science of the Unrepeatab...
theories of geology and
of cosmology .
Evolutionary biology , then, is akin to Big Bang cosmology ,
and much of astrophysics, in that it offers models to explain processes which
are historically particular, and could never be duplicated
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47. General Term: Singularity
The singularity (in Big Bang cosmology ) is the point at which time goes to
zero and values such as the density of the universe go to infinity, so that the
laws of physics no longer hold. See is the Big Bang a moment of creation?
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48. Physics Topic: The Theology of Creation
the entire Biblical cosmology
(Gen. 1:1-2:4a). Following the Flood a mythological catastrophe
of cosmic proportions in the Priestly narrative (Gen. 7:11)
a new covenant is made which includes all life, not just
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49. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Hawking-Hartle Proposal for the Earl...
on:
Traditional Big Bang cosmology allowed the space-time diagram to arise from
a point, like an ice-cream cone:
This point was then a so-called singularity at which values such as the
density of the universe would
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50. Interview: Bob Russell
that I understand through Big Bang
cosmology.
So, you really can't talk theologically in the vacuum, otherwise you ghettoize yourself. And you really can't talk
scientifically in a vacuum, otherwise you rob yourself of the great inheritance
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