The Big Bang and Theology.
This article extends and clarifies a case previously made that the cosmic singularity provides negligible support for creation and hence theism. A key task is to provide a modally robust notion of beginning to yield a valid argument. A physical theory might have no metric or multiple metrics, so a b...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 1126 - 1145 |
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