God and Cosmology: William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialoge

284 Pages·2016·10.038 MB·English

by  Robert B. Stewart

God and Cosmology

God and Cosmology
William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in
Dialogue
Robert B. Stewart, Editor
Fortress Press
Minneapolis
GOD AND COSMOLOGY
William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialogue
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Contents
Contributors ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgements xvii
1. What’s at Stake When We Debate God and 1
Cosmology?
Robert B. Stewart
2. God and Cosmology 19
The Existence of God in Light of Contemporary
Cosmology
William Lane Craig and Sean Carroll in Dialogue
3. Cosmology, Theology, and Meaning 107
Tim Maudlin
4. The Fine-Tuning for Discoverability 141
Robin Collins
5. How Physics Fakes Design, and Makes Things Difficult 169
for Theism
Alex Rosenberg
6. Cosmology and Cosmologists with the “Does God 209
Exist” Problem
A Consideration of Kalam’s Second Premise
James D. Sinclair
7. Concluding Comments 239
Index 259
Contributors
Sean Carroll is a Research Professor of Theoretical Physics at the
California Institute of Technology. He received his PhD in 1993
from Harvard University. His research focuses on fundamental
physics and cosmology, especially issues of dark matter, dark energy,
space-time symmetries, and the origin of the universe. Recently,
Carroll has worked on the foundations of quantum mechanics, the
arrow of time, and the emergence of complexity. He is the author
of The Particle at the End of the Universe, From Eternity to Here:
The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time, and textbook Spacetime
and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, as well as several
lecture courses for The Great Courses. He has been awarded prizes
and fellowships by the National Science Foundation, NASA, the
Sloan Foundation, the Packard Foundation, the American Physical
Society, the American Institute of Physics, and the Royal Society of
London. He frequently consults for film and television, and has been
featured on shows such as The Colbert Report, PBS’s Nova, and
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman.
Robin Collins (PhD, University of Notre Dame) is Distinguished
Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy
at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania. Collins has received
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