Cosmologic philosophy: why is there anything (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, October 18, 2015, 12:42 (3110 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Marcelo Gleiser muses and tells us we have no idea how the Big Bang began:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/10/15/448839381/could-all-really-come-from-nothing-It's nice to read of a theoretical physicist and cosmologist and professor of natural philosophy, physics and astronomy who asks the same questions as us and admits as I do (and as you don't) that he has no answers. Just one interesting hint of an answer:-QUOTE: “What seems to be needed is a new way of depicting the laws of nature not as static truths about the world but as emerging behaviors that unfold and take hold as time elapses. Physicist Lee Smolin and philosopher Mangabeira Unger hint at this in their book, but don't offer a working approach. (Who can blame them?)”-“Static truths” would fit in with your idea of an eternal know-it-all intelligence creating the laws of nature, whereas “emerging behaviours that unfold and take hold as time elapses” clearly suggests evolution without prior planning. But he doesn't commit himself here either.-David's comment: Such clear thinking!-Yes indeed. It's only faith that can dispense with clear thinking.