Do miracles break the laws of physics?

Do miracles actually break the laws of physics?

This episode is the first one to come with a warning: if you reject a creator as unreasonable or unnecessary to cosmology, this episode is going to really challenge you.

In this installment of Faith and Physics Uncovered, Rodger Price considers whether biblical miracles actually break quantum or astrophysical laws, or whether they instead involve astronomically unlikely events. If something has an infinitesimally small likelihood of happening, and it happens anyway, is that a miracle?

Rodger looks at how the big bang defies the laws of thermodynamics by creating matter and energy from nothing, and how the universe’s move from disorder to order conflicts with another law of thermodynamics, the law of entropy. Rodger also explores questions about life and consciousness arising naturally. He presents five fine-tuning examples: the precise amount of matter at the Big Bang, the gravity–electromagnetism ratio, the cosmological constant’s precision, water’s anomalous freezing behavior, and the extreme improbability of one-celled life forming. Each of these events has overwhelmingly low probabilities of happening.

All of this raises serious problems for atheism's viability as a sufficient philosophical system. For Rodger, it simply takes too much faith to believe that something arises from nothing, that life comes from non-life, and that the universe's fine tuning is all a matter of chance. These realities point to a creator's involvement. Next time, Rodger will explain where all his physics exploration led him in his faith, and how he's seeking to live that out on a daily basis. Leave us a review or a comment if something from this episode stands out to you.

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