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Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

Free and Open to the Public. The late Stephen Hawking wrote, “Our universe and its laws appear to have a design that is both tailor-made to support us and, if we are to exist, leaves little room for alteration.” What lies behind such a claim? And what might explain such a remarkable fact (if it […]

Religious Origins of Modern Science?

Kersten 120 5720 South Ellis Avenue, Hyde Park, IL

REGISTER HERE Cosponsored by the Department of History and the Committee for the Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science It is often thought that modern science developed largely independently of, or even in opposition to, religion.  Some historians, however, have suggested that religious factors played a key role in the emergence of modern science in […]