Tag Archives: Design Argument
Evidence for God: Design (Part 2 – Fine-Tuning of the Cosmos)
In Part 1, we considered the laws of physics as evidence for God. Our focus here is on the so-called fine-tuning of the cosmos. The basic idea is that various features of the universe are ‘just right’ for the existence of stars, galaxies and life itself; had they been slightly different the human race could not exist.
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Tagged Design Argument, Fine Tuning, God and Evidence, God and Physics
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Higgs’ Caution and Dawkins’ Unfalsifiable Fundamentalism
British theoretical physicist Peter Higgs has cautioned scientists that Richard Dawkins brand of atheism amounts to “anti-religious Fundamentalism”. To be fair to Dawkins, social scientists and historians might find this claim a little implausible. Historically, “fundamentalism” can describe several groups; Protestant Fundamentalism refers to
…a movement that arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries within American Protestantism reacting against “modernist” theology and biblical criticism as well as changes in the nation’s cultural and social scene.
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Tagged Dawkins, Design Argument, Fundamentalism, History, New Atheism
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