Rem B. Edwards (Ph.D., Emory University, 1962) is Lindsay Young Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author/editor of fifteen books, including Religious Values and Valuations and of more than fifty articles. He studied with Charles Hartshorne at Emory University. E-mail: remb1@comcast.net
What Caused the Big Bang? was published in 2001 by Brill Rodopi. If you value this text, please consider purchasing a copy.
SUMMARY
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God’s existence from the universe’s life-supporting order and contingent existence.
Chapters
- Front Matter
- One: Scientific Cosmology and the Big Bang
- Two: Humanistic Naturalism
- Three: Steady State and Plasma Cosmologies
- Four: Antecedent Universe Cosmologies
- Five: Big Fizz and Big Divide Quantum Cosmologies
- Six: Quantum Observership Cosmology
- Seven: Big Accident Quantum Cosmology
- Eleven: The Biopic Teleological Argument
- Eight: Atheistic Anthropic Cosmology
- Nine: The Final Anthropic Principle
- Ten: Concepts of God’s Nature and Existence
- Twelve: Theism and Cosmic Contingency