At Home in the Quantum Universe A Beginningless Universe? Was the Universe Designed? The Argument From Design The

of Pollard’s that quantum theory offers the pertinent gaps [see quantum-based proposals on divine action ] process theologians who postulate that the course of development of every entity is particularly exposed to the

Observatory, and entitled Quantum Cosmology and the Laws of Nature (1993), Chaos and Complexity (1995) and Evolution and Molecular Biology (1999), and Neuroscience and the Human Person , each with the sub-title Scientific Perspectives on

In effect this would be the quantum-mechanical version of Bishop Berkeley’s idealism . This is memorably summarised in a couple of limericks: There was once a man who said ‘God Must think it exceedingly odd If he

see theological responses to quantum cosmology ) does that make God non-existent, or less probable? ii) the claims made by sciences and religions must both be recognised as a function of their cultural contexts, as being in some sense

to raise. The most ingenious quantum-cosmological speculations (see Stephen Hawking and the growth of quantum cosmology ), going far beyond what could ever be tested experimentally, cannot answer the metaphysical question as to whether the

smallest level of things, in quantum theory , but this does not take away its attractiveness in other sciences.] Three questions may be asked to discover whether Crick’s project has succeeded: do the laws of physics and chemistry

do not understand how quantum mechanics works, but we know that it works. So too, we may not understand how an unembodied designer imparts specified complexity into the world, but we can know that such a designer imparts specified

general relativity with quantum mechanics , thereby bringing the entire universe under one grand mathematical umbrella. This theory is a major goal of contemporary theoretical physics, and it is this which Hawking has famously linked to

emerged out of a kind of quantum fuzz in which there was, at least at the initial moment of the big bang , an "imaginary" component of time. This term, does not mean a kind of Alice-in-Wonderland time, it has a precise mathematical