McGrath - INTRO_19 - A Fine-Tuned Universe

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Category IRC Short
Speakers McGrath, Alister
Year 2021

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In the previous presentation, we considered the religious significance of the "big bang", focussing on the idea that the universe had a beginning. This presentation focusses on a second aspect of modern cosmology - the recognition that the universe seems to have originated with life-friendly constants embedded within it. What does this mean? And what might its religious significance be?

 

01

Science and Religion: Introducing the Field

02

Science and Religion: A Personal Journey

03

The Warfare of Science and Religion?

04

Science and Faith: Different Maps of Reality

05

What does it mean to explain something?

06

How do we develop theories?

07

How do we find the best explanation?

08

Faith and Proof in Science

09

Faith and Proof in Religion

10

Scientism: Exploring the Limits of the Sciences

11

Can God "explain" anything?

12

Watching the Heavens: Copernicus and Kepler

13

Isaac Newton and the Mechanical Universe

14

Miracles and the Laws of Nature

15

How does God act in the world?

16

Darwin, Evolution, and God

17

Albert Einstein on Science and Faith

18

The Big Bang: Creation and Cosmology

19

A Fine-Tuned Universe

20

Models and Analogies in Science

21

Models and Analogies in Religion

22

Reductionism in Science and Religion

23

Science, Religion, and the Meaning of Life

24

Science, Religion, and Moral Values

25

Natural Theology

26

Mystery in Science and Religion

27

Conclusion: Framing the Relation of Science and Religion