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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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    A Conversation with Michael Shermer and Brian Keating: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof

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    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.

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