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Does the Universe Need God?
In J. B. Stump & Alan G. Padgett (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 185-197 (2012)
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This chapter contains sections titled: * The Universe We Know * Theories of Creation * Why This Universe? * The Multiverse and Fine-Tuning * Accounting for the World * God as a Theory * Note * References * Further ReadingAuthor's Profile
Does the Universe Need God? theories of creation physics, as not accounting for the Big Bang event God, a role to play, in the history of the universe problems with “creation from nothing” post-Big-Bang cosmological model, and history of the universe “vacuum state,” God's fine-tuning of physical, cosmological precision of the God hypothesis evaporating, with the messy reality thinking of the present state of the universe, working backwards science's concern with models, clarity, fitting to data
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