Grand Designer, GOD & Science, Before Big Bang from Administrator's blog

Abstract: Hawking-Mlodinow Theory of Everything (“HAM-TOE”) requires the assumption that mathematics has within its own nature the power to ‘breath fire’ into its own equations. But one must ask what actually guarantees that just because ‘the positive energy of matter can be balanced by the negative gravitational energy’ it must follow that the universe ‘will create itself from nothing.’ Hawking was the seventeenth occupant of the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University. How remarkable then that, when the full implications of the HAM-TOE model are properly drawn out, the resulting theological-metaphysical model bears an uncanny resemblance to the theological perspective of the second occupant of the Lucasian Chair, Sir Isaac Newton, who suggested that space was the ‘sensorium of God.’ The universe uses the perceiving process within the dualistic world of experience in order to explore and experience its own nature. Human beings occupy a central place in this process because they are the universe’s agents (leaving aside the issue of beings elsewhere in the universe) in the process of universal self-exploration, self-perfection and self-transcendence. This indeed is a universal process of self-discovery which modern theologians may wish to call ‘God.’ http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/61

Some Reflections on God and Science (by Himangsu S. Pal): Abstract: Perhaps this is the greatest irony in the whole history of our human civilization so far: science has explained that very God whose existence it has vehemently denied. If God does not exist, then those scientists who have given us special theory of relativity should not be called proper scientists at all. And if God does not exist, then special theory of relativity is not a proper science at all; it is simply a pseudo-science, something like astrology. To call it a science is an insult to human reason and understanding. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/62

Timeless & Climax (by Himangsu S. Pal): Abstract: If mystics’ sense of timelessness was in no way connected with the external world, then how will one justify scientists’ action here? Did these scientists think that the inside of the mystics’ heads was the real world? And so, when these mystics got their sense of timelessness from their head, then that should only be construed as a state of timelessness in the real world? And therefore, as scientists they were obliged to show as to how that state could be reached? Further, I think we need no further proof for the existence of God as I will explain in the Climax. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/63

Horizon: Before the Big Bang (by Philip E. Gibbs): Abstract: I think that explaining the universe requires us to look at ontological causality rather than temporal causality and the big bang is just one feature of the universe, not the reason for its existence. Although the experiments mentioned and others may throw some light on the nature of the big bang, we first need a better understanding of quantum gravity. There is still scope for theoretical developments that may help even before the experiments bear fruit. Even if you favour the string theory/M-theory route to quantum gravity (as I do), a better understanding of their foundations is required before we can hope to answer these questions about cosmology. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/69

What before Big Bang? (by Matti Pitkanen): Abstract: In a recent BBC documentary, some familiar old names and also two younger not so well-known cosmologists told about their answers to the question "What before Big Bang". Most of these approaches shared something with my own approach although all of them are conceptually primitive and involve a lot of hand waving. The reason is that these theoreticians remain in the framework of General Relativity where the new ideas do not have a natural place. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/70

Oh My Atheist Colleagues in Science (by Huping Hu): Abstract: This poem/lyrics is an appeal to the author’s atheist colleagues in science. It represents his hope for their transformation to search, research & embrace Scientific GOD. http://scigod.com/index.php/sgj/article/view/71