Physicist Eric Hedin: Cosmology Points to Cosmic Design

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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On this episode from the archives, physicist Eric Hedin continues his conversation with host Eric Anderson. Today, the logical problems with scientific materialism, a brief flyover of how scientists discovered the universe had a beginning, and an interesting theological question. This is the second half of a conversation.

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0:00.0	I.
0:02.0	I D. The Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.
0:12.0	Welcome to I. The Future. I'm Eric Anderson and today I'm pleased to be joined again by
0:16.7	Dr. Eric Hadeen to continue our discussion of cancelled science, what some atheists
0:21.4	don't want you to see.
0:23.0	Dr. Hadeen earned his PhD in experimental plasma physics and has taught physics and astronomy at Taylor University in
0:29.1	Ball State University in Indiana and a Biola University in Southern California.
0:34.0	His research has focused on computational
0:36.0	nanoelectronics and higher dimensional physics.
0:39.0	Welcome back, Eric.
0:40.0	Thank you very much, Eric.
0:41.0	It's great to be back.
0:42.0	So last time we talked about the boundaries of science, which was a course you taught at
0:46.8	Ball State University, and some of the key issues we all need to watch out for as we engage
0:51.2	in this wonderful and exciting enterprise of science.
0:55.0	We discuss the importance of critical thinking, whether we should expect science to have all
0:59.0	the answers, whether the naturalistic assumption that's so common in science these days is warranted and the importance of making up our own minds.
1:07.0	We also touched upon some of the really big issues, such as our ability to understand nature, free will, and the many things that quite frankly make life
1:14.2	meaningful and precious. I really encourage readers to pick up a copy of the book and
1:18.0	dive into these in more detail. Today however I'd like to jump into some of the
1:22.0	fascinating discoveries about our universe.
1:24.0	Well, that sounds great. I'll look forward to our discussion.
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