Large number hypothesis and continuous creation cosmologies

Nature ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 268 (5620) ◽  
pp. 504-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian W. Roxburgh
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Creation ◽  
Large Number Hypothesis

The Metaphysics of Jonathan Edwards’s “Personal Narrative”: Continuous Creation, Personal Identity, and Spiritual Development

2019 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-206
Author(s):  
Christopher Woznicki
Keyword(s):  
Personal Identity ◽  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Personal Narrative ◽  
Jonathan Edwards ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Continuous Creation ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The One

Summary Central to evangelical piety is the theme of “conversionism”. Among historical figures who embody this characteristic of evangelical piety one finds that Jonathan Edwards plays an important role, in part, because of his 1740 “Personal Narrative”. In this essay I examine the metaphysics underlying Edwards’s view of conversion in his “Personal Narrative”. Special attention is given to Edwards’s doctrine of continuous creation and to a feature that underlies his understanding of spiritual development, namely the One-Subject Criterion. I weigh two options for how Edwards may coherently hold to continuous creation and the One-Subject Criterion: Mark Hamilton’s relative realism/endurance account and Edwardsean Anti-Criterialism. I conclude that given the textual evidence Edwardsean Anti-Criterialism is to be preferred over Hamilton’s view.

Is your organization conducive to the continuous creation of social value? Toward a social corporate entrepreneurship scale

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald F. Kuratko ◽  
Jeffery S. McMullen ◽  
Jeffrey S. Hornsby ◽  
Chad Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Continuous Creation

scholarly journals The Large Number Hypothesis and Einstein's Theory of Gravitation

1985 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun-Kau Lau
Keyword(s):  
Cosmological Model ◽  
Cosmological Constant ◽  
Matter Density ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Field Equations ◽  
Large Number Hypothesis ◽  
Theory Of Gravitation ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Limiting Case ◽  
The Universe

In an attempt to reconcile the large number hypothesis (LNH) with Einstein's theory of gravitation, a tentative generalization of Einstein's field equations with time-dependent cosmological and gravitational constants is proposed. A cosmological model consistent with the LNH is deduced. The coupling formula of the cosmological constant with matter is found, and as a consequence, the time-dependent formulae of the cosmological constant and the mean matter density of the Universe at the present epoch are then found. Einstein's theory of gravitation, whether with a zero or nonzero cosmological constant, becomes a limiting case of the new generalized field equations after the early epoch.

Observations which contradict the hypothesis of a big bang universe

1994 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-172
Author(s):  
Halton Arp
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Big Bang ◽  
Correct Solution ◽  
Expanding Universe ◽  
Fundamental Assumption ◽  
Continuous Creation ◽  
Observational Test ◽  
Big Bang Theory ◽  
The Big Bang ◽  
Recession Velocity

The Big Bang theory requires all matter and galaxies to have been created simultaneously 15 billion years ago. But many young galaxies have been observed which must have been created more recently. Moreover, these younger objects, although demonstrably nearby, have large redshifts which cannot be due to recession velocity in an expanding universe. The fundamental assumption in the Big Bang is that extragalactic redshifts are caused only by the velocity of recession. It is shown here how every observational test which can be made on galaxies, and even stars, contradicts the assumption. It is described how a more general and more correct solution of the Einstein general relativity equations yields a non-expanding, continuous creation universe of unlimited age and size.

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