
 The Michael Shermer Show 175. Brian Keating — How it All Began: Cosmic Inflation, the Multiverse, and the Nature of Scientific Proof
 Apr 24, 2021 
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 Introduction 
 00:00 • 5min 
 I'm a Jew. I'd Love to Have It by Next Thursday 
 04:58 • 6min 
 I'm Not a Rabid, Militant Atheist, and You're a Christian, and You're Not Going to Accept These Arguments for Theism. 
 10:48 • 5min 
 Physicists Have Mathematical Enemies 
 15:54 • 2min 
 I Think Paparian Falsification Is Just One Element of Science 
 18:13 • 6min 
 The Limits to the Existence of Life Forms 
 23:58 • 4min 
 I Have a Dog, I Have a Puppy, I've a Dog. 
 28:22 • 1min 
 How Does the Deity Interact With the Physical Stuff? 
 29:49 • 5min 
 Are You Agnostic? 
 34:30 • 2min 
 Hawking, God Did Not Create the Universe 
 36:56 • 3min 
 Inflation and the No-Border Proposal 
 39:39 • 4min 
 You're Just Making This Up, This Multi Verse 
 43:58 • 2min 
 Is There a More Natural Multiverse in the Landscape of String Theory? 
 45:34 • 5min 
 The Solar System Size Particle Accelerator 
 50:55 • 4min 
 Hawking Hawking 
 54:36 • 6min 
 Hawking Is Not in the Pantheon of the Great Physicist 
 01:00:22 • 2min 
 Is the Theory of Evolution by Means of Natural Selection a Threat to Belief in God? 
 01:01:59 • 2min 
 Is There a Deistic God? 
 01:04:14 • 4min 
 Do You Think Human Nature Has Changed? 
 01:08:24 • 2min 
 The Origins of Morality 
 01:10:13 • 5min 
 Are You Agnostic About Climate Change? 
 01:15:14 • 5min 
 Catholicism and Judaism 
 01:20:27 • 2min 
 How Does Judaism Play a Role in the Western World? 
 01:22:22 • 3min 
 The Mythic Truths a Verse Empirical Truths 
 01:25:20 • 5min 
 How to Raise a Labrador Retriever 
 01:30:15 • 3min 
 What Is Gravity? 
 01:33:15 • 2min 
 The Most Mysterious of All the Forces 
 01:34:57 • 2min 
 The Theory of Special Relativity and the Conservation of Energy 
 01:37:19 • 2min 
 You Can Get All the Integers if You Start With Nothing Notenough 
 01:39:30 • 2min 
 What's Your Next Big Project? 
 01:41:19 • 3min 
 The Imprints of Inflationary Gravitation Waves in the Infant Universe 
 01:43:51 • 2min 
 Is the Past the Key to the Present? 
 01:45:42 • 2min 
 What Is the Solution to the Cold War? 
 01:47:45 • 24sec 
