Review of The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason by Victor J. Stenger

[Justtristo]

I lost interest in Stenger's work in Philosophy of religion when he was obliterated by Craig in a debate, I might give him another chance and see what he can put on paper.

How did Stenger get obliterated by William Lane Craig may I ask?

Can you expand on what he said about Quantum tunneling being responsible for a universe? I'm wondering if it has anything to do with a thought I had a while ago, the importance of Quantum Tunneling in radioactive decay being related to the existence of something rather than nothing? Quantum tunneling happens when the mechanical energy of an object has an uneven energy compared the potential energy of it's 'surroundings' or 'competition', In terms of the singularity it (or any energy at t=0) has an uneven potential or mechanical energy compared to it's competition, giving it a non-zero chance of being subject to tunneling.

Let me clarify,

According to Stenger and he is using a proposal by James Hartle and Stephen Hawking, also he admitted that he worked out mathematically a simplified version of it. Our universe appeared by a process called quantum tunneling from an earlier universe that, from our point of view existed limitlessly in the past. From our point of view the earlier universe, has been contracting in the opposite way to what we have experiencing in our universe since the big bang.

Stenger outlines his model in this article http://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/vsten...Origin.pdf

Personally I believe that an explanation to the formation of the universe and a theory of everything is going to be found, hence closing up another gap which theists can't use to shoehorn god

Oh, and I'd like to see his responses to the criticism of the New Atheists, I have a few serious ones myself, especially regarding Dawkins and Harris

Just list them and I can find if Stenger replied to them.