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PDF: Physics, Cosmology and the New Creationism

Download 45 times Source: www.colorado.edu // Topic: Cosmology File Size: 108.97 kb // Total of Page: 11 Page(s) Last download by kimiq Last download on: 1 month ago Share this info: Sample of page (click to enlarge) Short Desciption: knowledge in physics and cosmology. This serves to refute any claim that the origin of ... confined within a Planck sphere as Big Bang cosmology implies. ... Content Inside: Physics, Cosmology and the New Creationism Victor J Stenger The New Design Arguments While the argument from design is an ancient one, new variations have appeared in recent years. There are three main forms of the design argument today. In one form, referred to as "intelligent design," the modern science of information theory is brought to bear to supposedly "prove" that certain biological systems cannot have arisen naturally (see Elsberry, Pennock this volume). In a second form, the cosmological evidence that our universe begin with the Big Bang 1315 billion years ago is claimed to demonstrate that the universe was divinely created. In a third form, the laws and constants of physics are said to be so finely tuned for life that they could only have arisen by the act of a creator with the purpose of producing humanity. Each of these contributes to the rather vague concept known as "intelligent design"