God and the New Cosmology

The Anthropic Design Argument

By: Michael Corey

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In recent years, modern science has discovered that the underlying structural details of the entire universe have been "fine-tuned" toward the goal of producing biological life. Revolutionizing our conception of the relationship between science and religion, God and the New Cosmology uses scientific evidence to prove the existence of God beyond a reasonable doubt.

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God and the New Cosmology is an incisive book that makes a valuable contribution to contemporary philosophy of religion.--Stephen T. Davis, Claremont McKenna College

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Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 1
Overview	p. 1
The Humanoid Principle	p. 5
An Anthropic or Biocentric Universe?	p. 7
A Brief History of Teleological Thought	p. 10
Teleology, Eutaxiology, and the Concept of Design	p. 10
Early Background of Teleological Thought	p. 11
Greek and Roman Philosophy	p. 11
Medieval Philosophy	p. 15
Renaissance and Early Modern Thought	p. 16
Eighteenth-Century Thought	p. 18
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Thought	p. 21
The Influence of Darwinism on Teleological Thought	p. 23
The Return to a Scientific Teleology	p. 25
Teleology and Holism	p. 25
Conclusion	p. 26
The Immediate Background of the Biocentric and Anthropic Principles	p. 29
Science Acknowledges a Beginning to the Universe	p. 29
Evidence for the Biocentric Principle	p. 42
Where Did the Original Evolving Matter Come From?	p. 42
Creation Out of Nothing?	p. 43
The Cosmic Prevalence of Matter Over Antimatter	p. 44
The Amount of Matter in the Universe and the Rate of Cosmic Expansion	p. 45
The Role of Dark Matter in Cosmogenesis	p. 49
Evidence for the Existence of Dark Matter	p. 50
The Time Frame for Galaxy Formation	p. 51
Big Bang Ripples: The "Holy Grail" of Cosmology	p. 52
The Roughness Parameter	p. 54
The Size of the Universe	p. 55
The Advantage of a Sparse Universe	p. 56
The Temperature of Nuclear Stability	p. 58
The Role of Deuterium	p. 60
Design at the Sub-Atomic Level	p. 61
Cosmic "Coincidences" Involving Nature's Fundamental Constants	p. 64
Discussion	p. 67
Evidence for Design in the Invariant and Cooperative Aspects of Nature's Physical Constants	p. 68
Cosmic Repulsion	p. 72
Life and the Degree of Entropy in the Universe	p. 74
The Importance of the Velocity of Light in the Evolution of Life	p. 74
Photosynthesis and the Surface Temperature of the Sun	p. 75
The Historical Increase in Solar Luminosity	p. 76
The Transition to a Non-Toxic, Oxidizing Atmosphere	p. 77
Atmospheric Oxygen Maintenance	p. 79
The Requirements for a Stable Water Cycle	p. 80
The Timing of the Sun's T-Tauri Wind	p. 80
The Importance of the Ratio Between Photons and Protons	p. 81
The Smoothness of the Microwave Background	p. 81
The Homogeneity of the Universe	p. 83
Guth's Inflationary Hypothesis	p. 84
The Marvel of Intrastellar Carbon Formation	p. 86
The Role of Neutrinos and the Weak Nuclear Force in the Explosion of Supernovae	p. 91
Large Number Coincidences	p. 92
The Importance of Three Spatial Dimensions for the Evolution of Life	p. 94
The Existence of Order vis-a-vis the Second Law of Thermodynamics	p. 100
The Three Arrows of Time	p. 101
The Miracle of Carbon	p. 103
The Importance of Nitrogen, Sulfur, and Phosphorus in Biochemistry	p. 104
The Miraculousness of Water	p. 105
Discussion	p. 108
A Tailor-Made World	p. 109
The WAP and Natural Complexity	p. 113
The Rapidity of Life's Evolution	p. 115
The Relative Size of the Human Body in the Universal Hierarchy of Objects	p. 116
Interpreting the Evidence	p. 123
God and the Nature of the Quantum Vacuum	p. 123
Value of the Cosmological Constant	p. 124
God and the Primordial Process of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking	p. 127
Inflation and Contrivance	p. 128
Can Inflation Solve the Horizon Problem?	p. 131
Singularities in View of the Divine	p. 133
What Happened Before the Big Bang?	p. 135
The Creation of Space and Time at the Beginning	p. 136
Additional Biblical Parallels with Modern Cosmology	p. 137
The Miracle of Perfect Universal Balance	p. 138
The Mind of God and Bohm's Concept of the Implicate Order	p. 139
Contrivance and the Second Law of Thermodynamics	p. 140
Order Out of Disorder?	p. 142
God and the Existence of Self-Generated Order	p. 143
Natural Selection and the Origin of Life	p. 144
A Cosmic Blueprint?	p. 150
The Empirical Nature of the Biocentric Principle	p. 152
Making Sense of the "Coincidences"	p. 157
The Probabilistic Significance of the Cosmic "Coincidences"	p. 158
Coincidence or Contrivance?	p. 163
Cosmic Coincidences and the Odds Surrounding the Evolution of Life	p. 168
A Humean Objection	p. 170
Alternative Viewpoints	p. 175
The Many Worlds Interpretation of the Weak Anthropic Principle	p. 175
Campbell's Criticism of the WAP	p. 177
The Sum Over Histories Interpretation	p. 178
The Genesis Paradox Resolved	p. 180
Murphy's Law and the Anthropic Design Argument	p. 182
The SAP to the Rescue	p. 185
The Equivalence of the SAP with the Traditional Concept of Intelligent Design	p. 188
A Theistic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics	p. 189
God and Stephen Hawking's Proposed No Boundary Condition to the Universe	p. 191
What Is There for God to Do in the Universe?	p. 194
Ours as One of the Best of All Possible Worlds	p. 196
Summary	p. 199
A Proof for God?	p. 202
Varieties of Proofs	p. 202
Data Coherence and Causality	p. 205
A Probabilistic Proof for the Existence of God	p. 207
Scientific Proof for a Creator?	p. 209
The Acceptability of Indirect Scientific Evidence	p. 214
Scientific Truth via the Process of Elimination	p. 216
Deducing the Existence of God from the Intelligence of the Creation	p. 217
Holistic Proof for the Existence of God	p. 219
The Overall Case for Intelligent Design	p. 220
An Anthropic or Biocentric Universe?	p. 223
Argument for an Anthropic Interpretation of the Cosmological Evidence	p. 223
The Legitimacy of the Moderate Anthropocentric Perspective	p. 230
Anthropocentrism in Light of the Weak and Strong Anthropic Principles	p. 238
The WAP and the Existence of Extraterrestrial Intelligences	p. 239
Solar Eclipses and the Size of the Moon	p. 241
The Prospect of Divine Omnipotence	p. 246
Creation Ex Nihilo	p. 246
The Self-Existence of God vs. the Self-Existence of Matter	p. 247
Supernatural Naturalism	p. 248
Modern Cosmology and the Adequacy of the Process God	p. 249
Is the Present Universe Worthy of a Divine Creator?	p. 256
God's True Nature	p. 257
The Case for Natural Theology	p. 259
The Natural Theologian's Claims	p. 260
Natural Theology and the Threat from Naturalistic Evolution	p. 268
Response to Hume	p. 270
Kant's Objections to the Argument from Design	p. 280
Is Theistic Belief Falsifiable?	p. 282
The Positive Function of the Natural Atheologian's Criticisms	p. 284
Conclusion	p. 287
Faith and the Modern Scientist	p. 288
Apologetics and the Role of Faith	p. 288
The Origin of Our Modern Concept of Faith	p. 290
Epilogue: A Call for a New Type of Scientifically Minded Universal Theorist	p. 293
Appendix: In Defense of the Big Bang: A Theistic Response to Eric J. Lerner's Infinitely Old Plasma Universe	p. 294
Bibliography	p. 313
Index	p. 323
About the Author	p. 333
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