Michael Shermer & Brian Keating Part 2: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#149)

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Brian Keating: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse,
and the Nature of Scientific Proof Thanks to our sponsors!
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http://betterhelp.com/impossible In this episode, 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 the multiverse. Learn more about
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