God or Science? Is Science Denying God?

CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 Between Cosmogonies and Science
1.1 Cosmogonies
1.2 A Brief History of the Big Bang Theory
Summary: Key points
Chapter 2 The Genesis According to Science
2.1 The Early Universe
2.2 The Cosmic Background Radiation
2.3 The Dark Ages of the Universe
2.4 The First Stars Appear
2.5 The First Structures
2.6 Planets are Formed
2.7 Brief History of the Earth and Life
Summary: Key Points
Chapter 3 Why is there Something Out of Nothing? Matter-Antimatter Asymmetry
3.1 Fields and Interactions
3.2 Particles
3.3 Interactions
3.4 Matter Antimatter Asymmetry
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 4 The Bang of the Big Bang
4.1 Guth Inflation
4.2 Other Models for Inflation
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 5 What Do We Really know about the Primordial Universe?
5.1 Pros and Cons of Inflation: Did Inflation Really Exist?
5.2 The Great Unification
5.3 Quantum Gravity
5.4 Loop Quantum Gravity
5.5 The Theory of Superstrings
5.6 Planck Era
Summary: Key Points
Chapter 6 The Miracles of Quantum Mechanics
6.1 Quantum Uncertainty
6.2 Creation of Particles and Universes
6.3 Wave or Particle?
6.4 Probability and Superposition of States
6.5 The Two Slits Experiment: Teleology, Causation and God
6.6 Feynman and the Sum Over All Paths
6.7 Entanglement and Non-locality: spooky Actions at a Distance
Summary: Key Notes
Chapter 7 The Anthropic Principle
7.1 The Control Panel of the Universe
7.2 The Cosmological Constant and Life in Our Universe
7.3 The Anthropic Principles
7.4 The Anthropic Principle does not Work if there is no Multiverse
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 8 The Multiverse, the “Goldilock Enigma” and God
8.1 The “Multiverse” of the Many-worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
8.2 The Multiverse of Chaotic Inflation
8.3 Flat and Multiverse Universe
8.4 The Multiverse of String Theory
8.5 A Multitude of Multiverses
8.6 Is the Multiverse Scientific?
8.7 The Multiverse and God
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 9 A Universe from Nothing?
9.1 Did the Universe have a Beginning?
9.2 The Geometry of our Universe
9.3 A Zero Energy Universe
9.4 The Universe: A Free Meal
9.5 Quantum Cosmology
9.6 A Universe from Nothing?
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 10 What Do We know about the Origin of Life?
10.1 The Earth at the Time of the Appearance of Life
10.2 The Primordial Soup
10.3 From the Primordial Soup to LUCA
10.4 Starting from the Metabolism
10.5 Cells from the Start
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 11 Origin and Evolution of Life: Case or Project?
11.1 Order and Life
11.2 Evolution and God
11.3 The Difficult Road to Life: Chance is not Enough
Summary: Keynotes
Chapter 12 Conclusions
Index