Michael Shermer & Brian Keating: Part 1: How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof (#150)

Into the Impossible With Brian Keating

Brian Keating

Physics, Natural Sciences, Science

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🗓️ 21 May 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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0:00.0	Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
0:07.0	Welcome everybody to part one of this fascinating in-depth discussion
0:18.1	between Michael Schurmer and Brian Heating about Brian's recent cover
0:22.2	article in Skeptic magazine,
0:24.4	How It All Began Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the nature of scientific proof.
0:32.0	You have the cover story here it is because I'm out of actual physical copies.
0:36.3	Maybe you have a physical copy there of the latest issue.
0:38.6	Skeptic so there it is yeah in the beginning cosmic inflation, the multiverse and the nature of scientific proof.
0:45.9	So when I commission you to do this, many months ago now last year actually, you know, this was before I even knew that Stephen Meyer was writing this book
0:56.2	The Return of the God Hypothesis or that Michio Kaku was coming out with a book
1:01.8	The God Equation note the similarities of the covers.
1:05.8	So after you finish with your Galileo book, you need to write a God book and have some cover like that. So, you know, the topics you cover in the cover story of Skeptic really have nothing to do with
1:19.2	theism and God and religion that wasn't the purpose of it.
1:22.4	You know, I just wanted to know what's
1:24.3	the latest on the biggest questions where the universe came from and you know why
1:28.8	does it appear to be fine-tuned and you know what's the the shape of the universe and what is time and you know all
1:35.2	those great questions which to me those are scientific questions and you're a
1:39.4	scientist and but you know it's you don't have to dig very deep to realize well they do have
1:44.6	theistic implications because you can't help but wonder well where did it all start
1:49.4	and therefore is there something like a sentient mind behind it all?
1:54.5	So let's start there.
1:55.5	I mean, you just had Stephen Meyer on your podcast
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