Episode 4 Explanations and 'Definitions' of Religious Worlds
Further thoughts on theological explanations. Many definitions of 'religious' worlds.
Questions:
1. Did Hawking and Hartle's "no boundary proposal" (1983) envisioning the cosmos having the shape of a shuttlecock with a diameter of zero at its bottom-most point (whose formula was called the "wavefunction of the universe") render questions about transitions from a time before that boundary meaningless?
2. What is an example of religious dogma -- teaching through doctrine or ritual requirement -- that could produce a simultaneously conflicted (both positive and negative) psychological response?
Questions:
1. Did Hawking and Hartle's "no boundary proposal" (1983) envisioning the cosmos having the shape of a shuttlecock with a diameter of zero at its bottom-most point (whose formula was called the "wavefunction of the universe") render questions about transitions from a time before that boundary meaningless?
2. What is an example of religious dogma -- teaching through doctrine or ritual requirement -- that could produce a simultaneously conflicted (both positive and negative) psychological response?
