Cosmologist Frank Tipler on the Singularity Atheists Try To Evade

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 14 February 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On this classic ID the Future out of the vault, we hear commentary on the singularity from distinguished cosmologist Frank Tipler, co-author of The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. The singularity in question isn’t the supposed future singularity imagined by transhumanists, but the evidentially well-supported singularity at the foundation of the Big Bang. The equations are clear, says Tipler, as are their implications: among its many arresting features, the Big Bang singularity had an existence outside of space and time, was intrinsically infinite, and was not subject to any laws of physics. Atheists today still resist this conclusion, Tipler says, but only this conclusion has experimental support, and the negative implications for atheism are hard to miss. Source

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0:00.0	Welcome to ID the Future, a podcast about intelligent design and evolution.
0:13.8	Hello, I'm Andrew McDermott.
0:16.3	Today I'm sharing with you some bonus content from our short video series, Science Uprising.
0:21.9	Some well-known scientists have been preaching a materialistic worldview, rather than presenting
0:26.7	the public with all the evidence. The objective scientific evidence does not prove our universe
0:32.2	is blind and purposeless. It doesn't prove humans are simply meat machines. And it doesn't prove that evolutionary
0:39.1	mechanisms can completely account for the diversity of life on Earth. Science uprising was created
0:45.5	to help people think for themselves and make an informed decision about these important issues.
0:51.2	Each episode also comes with some great accompanying interview material so you can dive
0:55.8	deeper. On this episode of ID the Future, Distinguished physicist and cosmologist Frank Tipler
1:01.9	discusses the Big Bang, fine-tuning, and more. First, you've probably heard talk of the
1:08.4	singularity. But what is it, and how does it figure in to the fine-tuning debate?
1:13.9	The standard Big Bang Theory, the old-fashioned Big Bang Theory, says the universe began in a singularity
1:20.9	14 billion years ago.
1:24.2	Now, what is the singularity?
1:26.6	The singularity in a short, one-sentence description,
1:31.0	is a supernatural being that created the universe out of nothing.
1:36.1	Let me expand on that.
1:38.7	Supernatural literally means outside of nature.
1:43.0	Nature is something that's in space and time. Everything in this
1:47.2	office, you and me, are in space and time. The singularity is outside of space and outside of time.
1:54.8	It's an intrinsically infinite body, infinite entity, which is not subject to any laws of physics.
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