Michael Shermer & Brian Keating: Part 1: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#150)

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http://betterhelp.com/impossible Shermer and Keating discuss:
cosmology and Intelligent Design, the fine-tuning of the universe,
the multiverse and theism: many worlds or one God? How does the
Intelligent Designer or God as a disembodied mind interact with the
physical universe? If the origin of the universe and its fine-tuned
nature points to an intelligence or mind behind it, why don’t most
cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers accept that conclusion?
What are laws of nature? Can you explain the origin of the universe
by laws and rules of things in the universe? What came before the
Big Bang? What caused the bang that gave rise to our universe? Why
there is something rather than nothing? inflationary cosmology,
What is gravity? What is quantum gravity? How did the Big Bang
theory win out over the Steady State theory? the difference between
Popperian falsification, Kuhnian paradigm, and consensus science,
Is string theory physics, metaphysics, or mathematics? What shape
is the universe? Open, closed, or flat? What is dark energy and
dark matter? What is time? What is infinity? cyclic universes and
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