Review of Jeffery G. Sobosan, Romancing the Universe: Theology, Science, and Cosmology (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1999). Sobosan is a theologian and I a physicist, so I began with trepidation concerning the depth and accuracy of his scientific writing. Thankfully, my prejudice was baseless—Sobosan references current mainstream theories of quantum physics,…
Meta 119. 6/29/99. Approximately 467 words. Below is a message from Vic Stenger at the University of Hawaii in responseto George Ellis on the “Toy Universe” thread (see Meta 116). Thediscussion revolves around the anthropic principle and the “fine tuning” ofthe fundamental laws of physics. We also have dueling webpages at<http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/vjs/www/avoid/intel.html> (Vic Stenger’s “ToyUniverse”) and…
Regarding the second contribution in Meta 115, claiming that variations in the laws of physics do not make life improbable: I have found very interesting the web page I arrvied at via this discussion, namely http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/vjs/www/avoid/intel.html by Prof Stenger (Hawaii). This is by far one of the best argued purely physicalist discussions of the anthropic…
I would like to present a point of view on the relation between science and religion, particularly the mystical aspect of religion. My scientific background is that of a physicist who has investigated the interpretation of the mathematics of quantum mechanics for three decades. To explain the point of view, suppose that each of us…