Is there evidence of creation and transcendent intelligence in contemporary cosmology?

In his last scientific paper in 2018, Stephen Hawking and his co-author, Thomas Hertog, joined the ranks of other physicists in expressing the high unlikeliness of our universe being generated by an infinite multiverse through eternal inflation. He went on to say that any multiverse that could generate our universe would have a beginning and be finite with a relatively small number of bubble universes. When we combine this with the predicted domination of Boltzmann Brains and Brief Brains in an infinite multiverse, it seems increasingly likely that there is a beginning of physical reality and that fine-tuning for life may not be explicable through purely naturalistic causation, implying the possibility or likelihood of transcendent intelligence.

Join us for our first Being Human, Science & Religion series! Fr. Robert Spitzer will explain these new developments and their implications for a robust connection between physics and metaphysics - faith and reason.

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