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Does science deny God? Did the Universe and life appear by chance
or is there evidence of a bigger scheme of thing behind them? In
this context, I am concerned with answering these questions. This
problem is addressed using knowledge in cosmology, physics and
biology. The initial part describes the stages of the 'Genesis'
according to physical cosmology from the Big Bang to the appearance
of life on Earth. It will touch on problems of why the universe is
dominated by matter, the theory of inflation, the limits of our
knowledge on the early Universe, the lack of a theory that can
allow us to study the phases immediately after the Big Bang, the
relation between the concepts of quantum mechanics and the
existence of God. It shows how the Universe is finely regulated,
that is, the physical constants have been chosen so that life
appears in the Universe. The regulation is so strong that we are
forced to think the existence of a great designer who has created a
particular Universe like the one we are observing. This conclusion
can be avoided only if there is an infinity of universes, a
multiverse. We ask ourselves if science can create the Universe
from nothing and using the same arguments of cosmologists such as
Krauss (author of The Universe from Nothing). It is now known that
the current science does not allow the creation of a Universe from
absolutely nothing. Physics and cosmology do not deny God. Indeed,
the argument of the fine adjustment of constants is strongly
indicative of the existence of a great designer. Other evidence
confirming this comes from biology. Thousands of experiments in
recent decades highlight the impossibility of generating life in
the laboratory. There is an intrinsic order in life encoded in DNA
that is not present in experiments. Simple calculations show that
the 'blind and aimless' evolution described by neo-Darwinists such
as Dawkins does not allow the generation of life.
Does science deny God? Did the Universe and life appear by chance
or is there evidence of a bigger scheme of thing behind them? In
this context, I am concerned with answering these questions. This
problem is addressed using knowledge in cosmology, physics and
biology. The initial part describes the stages of the 'Genesis'
according to physical cosmology from the Big Bang to the appearance
of life on Earth. It will touch on problems of why the universe is
dominated by matter, the theory of inflation, the limits of our
knowledge on the early Universe, the lack of a theory that can
allow us to study the phases immediately after the Big Bang, the
relation between the concepts of quantum mechanics and the
existence of God. It shows how the Universe is finely regulated,
that is, the physical constants have been chosen so that life
appears in the Universe. The regulation is so strong that we are
forced to think the existence of a great designer who has created a
particular Universe like the one we are observing. This conclusion
can be avoided only if there is an infinity of universes, a
multiverse. We ask ourselves if science can create the Universe
from nothing and using the same arguments of cosmologists such as
Krauss (author of The Universe from Nothing). It is now known that
the current science does not allow the creation of a Universe from
absolutely nothing. Physics and cosmology do not deny God. Indeed,
the argument of the fine adjustment of constants is strongly
indicative of the existence of a great designer. Other evidence
confirming this comes from biology. Thousands of experiments in
recent decades highlight the impossibility of generating life in
the laboratory. There is an intrinsic order in life encoded in DNA
that is not present in experiments. Simple calculations show that
the 'blind and aimless' evolution described by neo-Darwinists such
as Dawkins does not allow the generation of life.
This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our
almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the
mystery of its origin and its end. The book starts with a
description of the historical events that led to the construction
of the Big Bang model together with the stages that transformed the
Universe from a very hot place to a very cold one, full with the
structures that we observe today. These structures (stars,
galaxies, etc.) constitute only 5% of the contents of the Universe.
Concerning the remaining 95%, dubbed dark matter and dark energy,
we know very little, and we have only indirect evidence of their
existence. The text describes the story and the protagonists who
showed the need for the existence of this 'missing matter', the
observations, and puzzles they had to solve to understand that dark
matter was not ordinary matter. The book describes the hunt for
dark matter, carried out with instruments operating in space, on
the Earth's surface, and in laboratories built in the bowels of the
Earth. It also describes dark energy, which manifests itself in the
accelerated expansion of the Universe, and appeared only a few
billions of years ago. The book discusses why dark energy must
exist and what its existence implies, especially for the future and
the end of our Universe.
This book describes some of the frontier problems of cosmology: our
almost total ignorance of what the Universe is made up of, the
mystery of its origin and its end. The book starts with a
description of the historical events that led to the construction
of the Big Bang model together with the stages that transformed the
Universe from a very hot place to a very cold one, full with the
structures that we observe today. These structures (stars,
galaxies, etc.) constitute only 5% of the contents of the Universe.
Concerning the remaining 95%, dubbed dark matter and dark energy,
we know very little, and we have only indirect evidence of their
existence. The text describes the story and the protagonists who
showed the need for the existence of this 'missing matter', the
observations, and puzzles they had to solve to understand that dark
matter was not ordinary matter. The book describes the hunt for
dark matter, carried out with instruments operating in space, on
the Earth's surface, and in laboratories built in the bowels of the
Earth. It also describes dark energy, which manifests itself in the
accelerated expansion of the Universe, and appeared only a few
billions of years ago. The book discusses why dark energy must
exist and what its existence implies, especially for the future and
the end of our Universe.
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