Physics to God Aaron Zimmer and Elie Feder

The first objective of this podcast series is to clearly explain the following claim:
When probing the universe at its most fundamental levels, physicists have discovered many
constants of nature which present a major challenge to the pursuit of a theory of everything. To
do this, we use helpful analogies to explain the idea of fundamental physics and explain the
roles of fundamental particles and laws. Then, we introduce the idea of constants of nature,
specific numbers which are built into the fundamental particles and laws of nature. Lastly, we
explain physicists' dream of finding a theory of everything, one set of laws that explains
everything in our universe.
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This episode shows how the specific values of the constants present a serious problem for the
realization of physicists' dream of finding a Theory of Everything. It explains the mystery of
constants, a problem which Richard Feynman called “one of the greatest damn mysteries of
physics.” The mystery is that the numbers seem completely arbitrary with no seeming reason for
their values. From the perspective of physics, these numbers could have taken on any value
whatsoever. So how can physicists explain these numbers?
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In this episode, we explain fine tuning, the major clue that physicists have discovered to help
solve the mystery of the constants. The idea of fine tuning is that the constants of nature are not
just arbitrary numbers, but there's something special about their values. Only numbers within a
certain range of values will yield a universe with atoms, molecules, planets, stars, galaxies, etc.
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This episode illustrates how fine tuning presents a major problem to the ordinary scientific method for explaining phenomena in our universe. Through an analogy from ethical systems, it demonstrates why a paradigm shift is needed to solve the mystery of the constants.
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This episode discusses the differences between the design argument in biology and the fine tuning argument in physics. First, we present the design argument in biology. Then, we discuss how the theory of evolution explains the apparent design of life without an intelligent cause. We explain why that solution doesn’t work in physics, and show how, even in the framework of biology, it merely pushes the design question back to the origin of life  - the design of the first DNA molecule. 
We then discuss the scientific answer to the origin of life problem: the multiplanet solution. We show how this type of explanation isn’t justified in physics. Lastly, we go even further and show that fine tuning in physics can shed new light on design in biology. All this will clarify the major advantages of the fine tuning argument in physics over the design argument in biology.
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In this episode, we move on from the fine tuning argument which focused on the quantities in the laws of nature (such as how big an electron is) and turn to the design of the qualitative laws of nature themselves (like the law of gravity that all masses attract). We present a design argument from physics and argue that the qualitative laws of physics, quantum mechanics and general relativity, exhibit clear signs of being designed. 
Once again, we do not argue about science, as the intelligent design argument does in biology. Rather we accept the scientific position about the laws of physics and only argue about the proper philosophical conclusion to be inferred from these laws. This leads to an independent support for the existence of an intelligent cause of our universe.
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