The fallacy of fine-tuning : why the universe is not designed for us /
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Other Corporate Authors / Creators: | Avy Lewis and Roberta L. Miller-Lerman Fund (Wellesley College Library) Mona Mathews Lacy, 1918, Book Fund (Wellesley College Library) |
Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2011. |
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Local Note: | Gift of the Mona Mathews Lacy, 1918, Book Fund. |
Summary: | A number of authors have noted that if some physical parameters were slightly changed, the universe could no longer support life, as we know it. This implies that life depends sensitively on the physics of our universe. Does this "fine-tuning" of the universe suggest that a creator god intentionally calibrated the initial conditions of the universe such that life on earth and the evolution of humanity would eventually emerge? In his in-depth and highly accessible discussion of this fascinating and controversial topic, the author looks at the evidence and comes to the opposite conclusion. He finds that the observations of science and our naked senses not only show no evidence for God, they provide evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that God does not exist. |
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Physical Description: | 345 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 1616144432 9781616144432 |
Author Notes: | During his lifetime, he wrote 13 books including Not By Design: The Origin of the Universe; Physics and Psychics: The Search for a World Beyond the Senses; God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist; God and the Folly of Faith: The Fundamental Incompatibility of Religion; God and the Atom: From Democritus to the Higgs Boson; and God and the Multiverse: Humanity's Expanding View of the Universe. He died of an aneurysm on August 27, 2014 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) |