Skeptic: Extraordinary Claims, Revolutionary Ideas, and the Promotion of Science

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Dr. Tipler (left) and Dr. Lawrence Krauss (right)

A Great Debate:
Can Physics Prove
God & Christianity?

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  • Event Date: Sunday, June 3, 2007 at 2:00 pm
  • Location: Baxter Lecture Hall
  • Speakers:
    Dr. Frank Tipler, Professor of Mathematical Physics at Tulane University and the author of The Physics of Christianity, The Physics of Immortality, and The Anthropic Cosmological Principle.
    Dr. Lawrence Krauss is Professor of Physics and Astronomy and Director of the Center for Education and Research in Cosmology and Astrophysics at Case Western Reserve University, and the author of Hiding in the Mirror, Atom, Quintessence, and The Physics of Star Trek.

In his book, The Physics of Christianity, Dr. Tipler argues that the God depicted by Jews and Christians, the Uncaused First Cause, is completely consistent with the Cosmological Singularity, an entity whose existence is required by physical law. He makes the case for the scientific possibility of miracles, including the Virgin Birth (Jesus was a rare XX male), the Resurrection (a baryon-annihilation process converting flesh into neutrinos), and the Incarnation (reversing the dematerialization process). (more…)