Theism, Atheism, and Big Bang Cosmology |
|
| Author:
| Craig, William Lane
Smith, Quentin |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-826383-8 |
| Publication Date: | May 1995 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
|
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $152.95AUD $139.05 |
Book Description:
|
Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called `the Big Bang'. But was the Big Bang created (by God), or did it occur without cause? In this book two philosophers of the opposite viewpoints debate the question. Their arguments are based on Einstein's theory of relativity and include a discussion of the new quantum cosmology recently developed by Stephen Hawking in A Brief...
More DescriptionContemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called `the Big Bang'. But was the Big Bang created (by God), or did it occur without cause? In this book two philosophers of the opposite viewpoints debate the question. Their arguments are based on Einstein's theory of relativity and include a discussion of the new quantum cosmology recently developed by Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time.