Cosmology and the Problem of Evil: God and the Second Law
For decades, a discussion has raged over the explanation of the peculiarity of our universe due to its fine-tuned constants. One explanation is that ours is one of an infinite number of randomly produced universes. Another is that a beginningless ground of nature or God produced our universe. The mo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Zygon
Year: 2025, Volume: 60, Issue: 3, Pages: 779–801 |
| Further subjects: | B
fine-tuned constants
B Hartshorne B Process theology B Cosmology B problem of evil B second law B Charles Hartshorne |
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| Summary: | For decades, a discussion has raged over the explanation of the peculiarity of our universe due to its fine-tuned constants. One explanation is that ours is one of an infinite number of randomly produced universes. Another is that a beginningless ground of nature or God produced our universe. The most serious argument against the notion of a God remains the problem of evil. But the same century that produced the idea of an evolutionary universe produced a "process" notion of God, rejecting omnipotence and omniscience and making God partly corporeal. The question lying behind the discussion of fine-tuned constants is what could have caused this particular universe, a world of order, disorder, and hazard, which took ten billion years to produce the local complexities of life and mind. One explanation is a God subject to internal limitations that apply to the universe as well. Such a Ground of Nature is likely not only to be partly physical but also subject to the laws of thermodynamics. |
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| ISSN: | 1467-9744 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zygon
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.16995/zygon.16981 |
