Beyond Intelligent Design The Scientific Case for a Creator

• published: 06 Dec 2012
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I do not own the copyright on this video and no infringement is intended. This is for education purposes only and not for profit. If you are going to post, please keep it clean, debate, don't insult. If you can post links to back up any claims for or against let's keep it rational and allow others to check out any claims. Any foul, abusive or insulting posts will be deleted. Trolls will be tolerated as long as you keep it clean, don't insult people's belief or lack thereof and at least try and be funny. If too many use this to vent their hatred of religion and reason with out addressing the content all comments by that poster will be flagged for spam and later deleted. (Apologies, I have merged the parts of this lecture together so it may not fit together correctly but I hope that does not spoil it for you) I will be gathering together more videos on the Scientific Case for God, for as a Catholic I know, Faith without reason is dead. I believe God created the universe 13 -14 billion years ago and that when science cannot prove or does not know I then go on faith alone. But nothing in science so far has been able to disprove God, rather the more science learns the more proof there seems to be for a Creator. http://www.geraldschroeder.com/About.aspx Dr Gerald Schroeder http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Schroeder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Centre, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality. Education Education Schroeder received his BSc in 1959, his MSc in 1961, and his PhD in nuclear physics and earth and planetary sciences in 1965, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He worked five years on the staff of the MIT physics department. He was a member of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. Aliyah to Israel After emigrating to Israel in 1971, Schroeder was employed as a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Volcani Research Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He currently teaches at Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies. Religious views His works frequently cite Talmudic, Midrashic and medieval commentaries on Biblical creation accounts, such as commentaries written by the Jewish philosopher Nachmanides. Among other things, Schroeder attempts to reconcile a six day creation as described in Genesis with the scientific evidence that the world is billions of years old using the idea that the perceived flow of time for a given event in an expanding universe varies with the observer's perspective of that event. He attempts to reconcile the two perspectives numerically, calculating the effect of the stretching of space-time, based on Einstein's theory of general relativity. Antony Flew, an academic philosopher who promoted atheism for most of his adult life indicated that the fine-tuned universe arguments of Gerald Schroeder convinced him to become a deist. In precise adjunct to accurately focus the late Flew's stated position, Flew has concluded his book, There Is A God, wherein he credits Gerald Schroeder at length, with these final words: "I am very much impressed [with] the case for Christianity... Is it possible that there can be divine revelation? As I said, you cannot limit the possibilities of omnipotence except to produce the logically impossible. Everything is open to omnipotence." Personal Schroeder's wife Barbara Sofer is a popular columnist for the English language Israeli newspaper, Jerusalem Post. The couple have five children. Prizes In 2012 Schroeder was awarded the Trotter Prize by Texas A&M; University's College of Science. Works Genesis and the Big Bang (1990), ISBN 0-553-35413-2 The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom, (1997), ISBN 0-7679-0303-X The Hidden Face of God: Science Reveals the Ultimate Truth, (2002), ISBN 0-7432-0325-9. God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along, (2009), ISBN 978-0-06-171015-5. In the multiverse, anything can happen for no reason at all, in other words, the materialist is forced to believe in random miracles as an explanatory principle. In a theistic universe, nothing happens without a reason. Miracles are therefore intelligently directed deviations from divinely maintained regularities and thus are expressions of rational purpose. Dr Bruce Gordon