{"id":147338,"date":"2022-10-01T09:24:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/deficiency-of-alternative-models-to-the-big-bang"},"modified":"2022-10-01T09:24:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T14:24:15","slug":"deficiency-of-alternative-models-to-the-big-bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/deficiency-of-alternative-models-to-the-big-bang","title":{"rendered":"Deficiency of Alternative Models to the Big Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CAVUvq6BE1E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hossenfelder lists several theories that fall under her critique including Penrose\u2019s cyclic cosmology, the ekpyrotic universe that postulates colliding membranes, and the no-boundary proposal by Jim Hartle and Stephen Hawking. Stephen Meyer also critiqued these theories in his book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Return-God-Hypothesis-Compelling-Scientific-ebook\/dp\/B07G122JJN\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1PA2HJKV47HAP&keywords=Return+of+the+God+Hypothesis&qid=1663824867&sprefix=return+of+the+god+hypothesis%2Caps%2C241&sr=8-1&tag=lifeboatfound-20\">Return of the God Hypothesis<\/a><\/em>. But Meyer came to starkly different conclusions.<\/p>\n<p>Hossenfelder concludes that \u201cwe are facing the limits of science itself.\u201d And the question of the universe\u2019s origin \u201cwe\u2019ll never be able to answer.\u201d In contrast, Meyer argues that the evidence for a beginning and the required fine tuning of the universe to support life point to a mind behind our world. The fact that all alternative cosmological theories require highly specific initial conditions to explain our present life-friendly universe only reinforces the fine-tuning argument and by extension the God Hypothesis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hossenfelder lists several theories that fall under her critique including Penrose\u2019s cyclic cosmology, the ekpyrotic universe that postulates colliding membranes, and the no-boundary proposal by Jim Hartle and Stephen Hawking. Stephen Meyer also critiqued these theories in his book Return of the God Hypothesis. But Meyer came to starkly different conclusions. Hossenfelder concludes that \u201cwe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}