Space and the Philosophy of Religion

We’re about to study cosmological arguments for the existence of God in A-level and GCSE Philosophy of Religion.

This includes evaluating cosmic Red Shift and Background Radiation alongside philosophical arguments for a First Cause to discuss whether belief in a supreme being is coherent with the scientific method.

At A level we go more deeply into the philosophical foundations of the scientific method, and touch on the anthropic principle and multiverse theory.

It intrigues many of our students that NASA persists in referring to the Big Bang as a hypothesis (because most of them have been conditioned to regard it as proven fact), and it also stretches their minds to discover that the levels of mass, density and gravity needed to make the model work are almost as irrational as any creation myth!

-J. Bailey