Tag: beginning of the universe

^{Type
post

Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
October 17, 2022

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Arthur Eddington, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, cosmic beginning, earliest galaxies, Edwin Hubble, Eric Lerner, expanding universe, fine tuning, galaxy formation, God, God hypothesis, infrared telescope, Intelligent Design, James Webb space telescope, James Webb telescope, Michael Medved, redshift, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen C. Meyer, The Daily Wire, Theism}

Stephen Meyer: James Webb Telescope Supports the Big Bang

_{Stephen C. Meyer

October 17, 2022

Physics and Cosmology}

On this ID The Future, Return of the God Hypothesis author Stephen Meyer again speaks with radio host Michael Medved about the extraordinarily powerful new James Webb space telescope. One researcher, Eric Lerner, has claimed that what the Webb telescope is seeing many billions of light years away (and therefore, many billions of years in the past) undercuts the Big Bang theory. But according to Meyer, the new photographs coming back from Webb actually further confirm the reality that our universe had a beginning (“the Big Bang”) and that it has been expanding ever since. What these Webb images are forcing a rethink on, Meyer says, is the conventional wisdom among cosmologists on galaxy formation in the early universe. Meyer Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Brian Miller

Date
March 23, 2022

Categorized
Physics and Cosmology

Tagged
Albert Einstein, Aristotle, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem, Brian Miller, bubble universes, Casey Luskin, CMBR, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, cosmic background radiation, cosmological constant, cosmology, cyclical universe, Edwin Hubble, eternal inflation, eternal universe, fine tuning, Fred Hoyle, general theory of relativity, Georges Lemaître, Intelligent Design, Lawrence Krauss, Materialism, multiple universes, multiverse, oscillating universe, quantum cosmology, specified complexity, steady state model, Stephen Hawking, string landscape model, Universe from Nothing, Vesto Slipher, Wheeler-DeWitt equation}

Physicist Brian Miller Answers the Big Bang Evaders

_{Brian Miller

March 23, 2022

Physics and Cosmology}

On this ID the Future, physicist Brian Miller looks at various attempts to evade the mounting evidence that the universe had a beginning, a Big Bang. Miller and host Casey Luskin first review the fascinating history of how the eternal universe model of the nineteenth century gave way to the Big Bang model. Then Miller walks through about a half a dozen attempts to evade a cosmic beginning after the Big Bang model had won the day. These evasions include the steady state model, the idea of an eternal cyclical universe, and the string landscape model. According to this model, our universe exists in a multi-dimensional brane (not “brain”) which exists in a higher dimensional space, and our multi-dimensional brane Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
September 13, 2021

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Allen Sandage, Altenberg 16, Atheism, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, BioLogos, Brian Keating, confirmation bias, Darrel Falk, Eugene Koonin, exotic naturalism, fine tuning, fine tuning of the universe, Francis Crick, God and the Astronomers, Günter Bechly, imaginary time, James Tour, Materialism, metaphysical hypotheses, methodological naturalism, Michael Shermer, multiverse, Neo-Darwinism, origin of life, oscillating universe model, panspermia, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, RNA World hypothesis, Robert Jastrow, skepticism, steady state theory, Stephen C. Meyer, Stephen Hawking, Theism, theistic evolution}

Stephen Meyer and Skeptic Michael Shermer, Pt. 1

_{Stephen C. Meyer

September 13, 2021

Faith and Science}

Today’s ID the Future spotlights the first part of a lively and cordial conversation between host and atheist Michael Shermer and Stephen Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe. In this first of the four-part series, the two touch on everything from Meyer’s three key lines of evidence for theism to a quick flyover of less well-known materialistic origins theories, including the oscillating universe model, panspermia as an explanation for the origin of the first life on earth, and Stephen Hawking’s idea of imaginary time. Meyer lumps many of these ideas under what he terms exotic naturalism and suggests that the atheists who defend these explanations are multiplying exotic Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
June 2, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
Allan Sandage, argument from ignorance, beginning of the universe, Biological Information, Brian Josephson, Brian Keating, causal adequacy, complex specified information, Cosmological Argument, Evolution, fine tuning, God, God hypothesis, God of the gaps argument, Henry Quastler, Inference to the Best Explanation, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, mind-brain, origin of life, Robert Jastrow, teleological argument, Thomas Aquinas}

Return of the God Hypothesis: Q&A with Stephen Meyer, Pt. 2

_{Stephen C. Meyer

June 2, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On today’s ID the Future Stephen Meyer continues fielding questions about his new book, Return of the God Hypothesis. The occasion was a live Zoom event for people who had pre-ordered the book. Daniel Reeves emceed, and here in the second part, Meyer rebuts the objection that intelligent design is an argument from ignorance. He also answers another objection, namely that our uniform experience with designing minds is that minds are embodied in material brains and yet Meyer seems to infer a non-embodied mind as the explanation for the design of life and the universe. Meyer also lists some prominent scientists who have either endorsed the book or championed key arguments in the book. Meyer is the Director of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Eric Hedin

Date
March 22, 2021

Categorized
Intelligent Design

Tagged
age of the universe, Albert Einstein, anthropic fine tuning, beginning of the universe, Big Bang, Edwin Hubble, entropy, expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning of the expansion rate of the universe, fine tuning problem, fine-tuning of the proton-neutron mass difference, Hallmarks of Science, Intelligent Design, Materialism, methodological materialism, Naturalism, origin of life, origin of the universe, proton-neutron mass difference, second law of thermodynamics}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

_{Eric Hedin

March 22, 2021

Intelligent Design}

On this ID the Future host Eric Anderson continues his conversation with physicist and Canceled Science author Eric Hedin. Here Hedin argues that the dogmatic rule that natural science should only ever invoke natural causes has at its heart a logical problem. He and Anderson also review some startling cases of fine-tuning for life and why a “theory of everything” would not solve the fine-tuning problem for atheists but merely move it back to the theory of everything itself. Also in today’s conversation, a highly accessible flyover of how scientists came to realize that the universe wasn’t eternal but had had a beginning. Hedin also tackles a theological poser: If the universe was designed for life, why did the designer Read More ›