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Shermer and Keating discuss:
- cosmology and Intelligent Design,
- the fine-tuning of the universe,
- the multiverse and theism: many worlds or one God?
- How does the Intelligent Designer or God as a disembodied mind interact with the physical universe?
- If the origin of the universe and its fine-tuned nature points to an intelligence or mind behind it, why don’t most cosmologists, physicists, and astronomers accept that conclusion?
- What are laws of nature?
- Can you explain the origin of the universe by laws and rules of things in the universe?
- What came before the Big Bang?
- What caused the bang that gave rise to our universe?
- Why there is something rather than nothing?
- inflationary cosmology,
- What is gravity? What is quantum gravity?
- How did the Big Bang theory win out over the Steady State theory?
- the difference between Popperian falsification, Kuhnian paradigm, and consensus science,
- Is string theory physics, metaphysics, or mathematics?
- What shape is the universe? Open, closed, or flat?
- What is dark energy and dark matter?
- What is time?
- What is infinity?
- cyclic universes and the multiverse.
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