Today’s New Reason To Believe

Not Much Gravity a Good Thing
Air date: 6-12-07
Hugh Ross, Fuz Rana, Kenneth Samples, and Joe Aguirre

• Discoveries
  • Gravity wave detection instrument affirms big bang cosmology
    • B. Abbott et al., “Searching for a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory,” Astrophysical Journal 659 (April 20, 2007): 918-30.
    • Resources
      • The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
      • Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross
  • New emphasis in origin-of-life research
    • Robert Shapiro, “A Simpler Origin for Life,” Scientific American, June 2007, 47-53.
    • Addy Pross, “Causation and the Origin of Life: Metabolism or Replication First?” Origins of Life and Evolution of the Biosphere 34 (2004): 307-21.
    • Robert Shapiro, “Small Molecule Interactions Were Central to the Origin of Life,” Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 81, no. 2 (June 2006), 105.
    • Resources
      • Origins of Life, by Fazale Rana and Hugh Ross
      • Origins, a Skeptic’s Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth, by Robert Shapiro
      • Jacquelyn A. Thomas and F. R. Rana, “The influence of environmental conditions, lipid composition, and phase behavior on the origin of cell membranes,” Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, vol. 37, no. 3 (June 2007), 267-85.
• Philosophy/theology segment
  • Ken discusses the passing of pragmatic philosopher Richard Rorty
    • Richard Rorty (1931–2007)
• RTB announcement
  • Bob Stuart reminds listeners that the next term for Reasons Institute begins July 2
    • Reasons Institute
• Call-in questions
  • Roger from Portland, ME:
    • How many realistic alternative models for the origin of the universe have not been eliminated by the LIGO results? Can Hugh name any viable alternative models?
    • Are some hot big bang inflationary models harmonious with Scripture and some not?
  • David from Los Angeles:
    • Is the multiverse idea testable? Does the Bible allow for the multiverse?
    • Resource
      • The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross
• Email question
  • Steve Gann, a chemistry teacher:
    • Is theistic evolution falsifiable?
    • Resource
      • Creation as Science, by Hugh Ross
• Dan from Grandview, MO:
  • Can Hugh provide objective information for his claim that the items listed in Jeremiah 31: 38-40 have been fulfilled in consecutive order?
• Brain Boothe:
  • When did light separate from darkness? The question comes in response to a statement Hugh made on the John Ankerberg debate.
  • Resources
    • The Great Debate on Science and the Bible (DVD)
    • A Matter of Days
    • Beyond the Cosmos, 2nd ed., by Hugh Ross
    • The Creator and the Cosmos, 3rd ed., by Hugh Ross