Index
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Index
Adams, Robert, 130n3
Aguirre, Anthony, 28, 69, 226, 231, 235, 237
Albert, David, 21
Alston, William, 130n3
Anselm of Canterbury, 111
anthropic principle, 7, 157n21, 159n22
Aquinas, Thomas, 86, 87, 113, 115
Aristotle, 38–39, 59, 170
Azimov, Issac, 214
Ayala, Francisco, 202
Barnes, Luke, 64
Barrow, John D., 7n3, 104, 157
Beale, Nicholas, 7, 8, 12n10, 14
Behe, Michael, 243–44
“Big Bang” theory, x, 8–9, 12–13, 25, 51, 64, 87, 108, 114–15, 134, 139, 156–57, 167, 190, 212, 215, 220n8, 224–28
Boddy, Kim, 52–53
Bohm, David, 93
Bojowald, Martin, 223–28
Boltzmann Brains, 31, 34–35, 45, 51–53, 62–66, 72, 79, 80, 132–34, 136–38, 165
Boltzmann, Ludwig, 137–38
Borde, Arvind, 25–26, 42–43, 46, 62, 70, 78–79, 98–99, 130, 138, 212–13, 219, 231–35, 242
Borde-Guth-Vilenkin model, 26, 42–43, 46, 62, 70, 78–79, 98–99, 130, 138–39, 219, 231–35, 242
Bourget, David, 83n48
Butterfield, J., 27n13, 221, 223, 233n17
Carroll-Chen model, 26n10, 62, 226
Chalmers, David J., 83n48
Charley, Sarah, 155n18
Chown, Marcus, 13
Copan, Paul, 130n3
Darwin, Charles, 57, 82, 169, 170–72, 182–206, 243
Darwin’s Black Box (Behe), 243
Davies, P. C. W., 29
Deltete, Robert, 220–21, 223
de Sitter space, 30–31, 53n32, 62–63, 79
Eddington, Arthur, 9
Einstein, Albert, 9, 93, 95, 114, 118, 141n1, 143, 210–11, 214–19
Ellis, George, 12, 28n15
Esfeld, Michael, 27n13, 234n18
Euclid, 27n13, 215, 220–23, 232
Euthyphro, 126, 129, 130n3, 249
Everett, Hugh III, 93–94
F-theory, 11
Feferman, Solomon, 22n4
Feynman, Richard, 207, 219
Friedmann-LeMaître-Robertson-Walker model, 25, 211
fine-tuning, 7–9,13–14, 20–21, 32–35, 47–50, 54–55, 60, 63–64, 66, 71, 74, 79–80, 104, 113, 115, 119, 124, 131–32, 138–39, 141–68, 197, 207, 253, 255
flatness problem, 8
Galileo, 108–9, 254
General Relativity, theory of, 9, 39, 50, 114–15, 121, 138, 156n20, 211, 216n6, 222–23
Geroch, Robert, 216–17
Gibbons, G. W., 50n29, 133
God-of-the-gaps, 20, 44
Goodman, Nelson, 147
Gould, Paul, 66n42
Gratton, Steven, 70, 226, 231, 237
Greene, Brian, 11
Guth, Alan, 8, 25–26, 42, 46, 62, 70, 78–79, 98–99, 212–13, 231, 233, 242
Guy, Reed, 220–21, 223
Hartle-Hawking, 28, 59, 219, 222–24, 233
Hawking, Stephen, 27n13, 28, 30, 40, 44–45, 50n29, 59, 62, 79, 133, 219–25, 232–33, 237
Hedrich, Reiner, 27n13, 233
Higgs boson, 98, 162–63, 167
Hilbert, David, 22n4, 228
horizon problem, 8
Hubble, Edwin, 8, 54, 167
inflationary models, 8–14, 25n9, 30n18, 41–42, 70n43, 114–16, 118, 131, 165, 213
Isham, C. J., 27, 221, 223, 233
Kaku, Michio, 11
Kalām Cosmological Argument, 6n2, 16, 20–21, 23, 25n8, 32, 38, 59, 60n35, 67, 75, 87, 89, 130, 132, 209–10, 215, 229–30, 247n2, 250–51
Kasner, Edward, 22n4
Kant, Immanuel, 57, 195
Kehayias, John, 28, 235
Kelvin, Lord, 14, 15, 170–71, 188
Kenny, Anthony, 17
Krauss, Lawrence M., 21n3, 24, 88
Lam, Vincent, 27
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, 251
LeMaître, George, 25, 27n13, 87, 89, 211
Lewis, David, 80
Light Waves and Their Uses (Michelson), 15
Livio, Mario, 154
Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem (Steiner), 143
Michelson, Albert, 14–15
Miller, Corey, 66n42
Miller, Stanley, 179
Misner, Charles, 130
Mithani, Audrey, 13, 24n7, 26n10
Moreland, J. P., 25n8, 58n34, 60n35, 130n3, 142n2, 247n2
multiverse (M theory), 2, 8–12, 14, 33, 35, 50–52, 64–65, 68, 72, 79, 131–32, 142, 151–54, 164–65, 228–29
Nagel, Thomas, 254
Nagasawa, Yujin, 25n8
Newman, James R., 22n4
Newton, Isaac, 57–58, 95, 170, 195, 214–15, 254
Pascal, Blaise, 18
Penrose, Roger, 11, 93, 165
Penzias, Arno Allan, 8
Planck time, 27n13, 61, 79, 130, 234
Plantinga, Alvin, 19
Plato, 126–27, 150n11, 249
Polkinghorne, John, 7–8, 11–12, 14
Pollack, Jason, 52–53
Polly, Chris, 155
Popper, Karl, 10
Quantum Eternity Theorem, 43, 69, 232–33
Rees, Martin, 7–8
Relativity of Wrong, The (Azimov), 214
Schrödinger, Erwin, 43, 144, 232
Sebens, Charles T., 94n50
second law of thermodynamics, 22, 29, 31, 44–45, 60, 78–79, 81, 171, 175, 190, 197, 203–5
Silk, Joe, 12
Smith, Quentin, 219–24, 232
Smolin, Lee, 10
Steiner, Mark, 143
Stewart, J. M., 50n29
string theory, 10–11, 33, 115, 164–65
Susskind, Leonard, 13
Tam, Heywood, 50n29
Tegmark, Max, 51n30
teleological argument, 20–21, 32, 47, 58, 63, 70–71, 79–80, 131–32, 142n2
Theory of Everything, 11, 33, 98
thermal equilibrium, 30, 134, 203
thermodynamic noise, 173–74, 179, 181
Thorne, Kip, 216–18
Tipler, Frank J., 7n3, 157
Trapani, Joseph, 125–26
Urey, Harold, 179
Valery, Paul, 213
Vilenkin, Alexander, 13, 24–26, 28, 42, 46, 60–62, 70, 78, 98–99, 212–13, 218–25, 231–35, 237, 242
Wall, Aron, 31, 36n22, 63, 69, 79, 130
Weaver, Christopher, 36n22, 62, 79
Weinberg, Steven, 109, 125, 154
Where the Conflict Really Lies (Plantinga), 19
Wigner, Eugene, 143
Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 8
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 240
Wolchover, Natalie, 12n11
worldview, 5, 82, 89, 101–2, 135, 245
Zeh, Heinz Dieter, 226