God and the Cosmologists
One famous cosmologist claims that our universe may be a
laboratory product from another universe. According to another the universe
just happened by sheer chance. Still another argues that God himself could
not have produced a different universe. Not surprisingly, the same cosmologist
boasts of his atheism and gladly suffers being written up as master of
the universe. Most cosmologists hardly care about the blasphemous undertones
of such claims. They seem to worry just as little about their theoretical
fragmenting of the cosmos into trillions of universes. Most of those with
religious convictions and some expertise in cosmology express neither concern
nor bewilderment. No wonder. In an age in which religion has become mostly
a matter of sentiments and activism no premium is set on the physical universe
as the very basis of all properly reasoned worship that has as true Creator
for its object. How did we get to this scientifically coated intellectual
malaise? What has been the true role of scientific cosmology in this ominous
process? In answering these questions the author, an internationally known
historian of cosmology and the winner of the Templeton Prize for 1987,
also unfolds some crucially positive contributions of 20th-century scientific
cosmology to the cosmological argument.