Tomorrow I am going to attend a lecture by Mike Strauss. He's professor of physics at the University of Oklahoma that argues evidence for the existence of god. There will be a Q&A session at the end. What should I ask him?

Just to provide you an update:

So, I asked him two questions at the event. One relates to the question you provided me.

The first question was on this picture he used during his presentation. I asked him about the noted quantum fluctuation at the beginning of the big bang in his diagram and asked him what he thought of it as it is used as an alternative (and testable) theory to creation. He said that the arguments used for quantum fluctuation do not negate creation because, as he put it, quantum fluctuation still needs the foundation of spacetime to work, so where did that foundation come from? God.

The second question I asked him was a follow-up to a question asked by another audience member, as he went into (somewhat negating) deism on his answer. I asked was something along the lines of:

The distinction between Deism and Christianity is important here, as Deists believe that god created existence but since left everything to flower on its own accord where Christians believe god remains an important role in intervention and influence in our everyday lives; after all, we did open our event here today with a prayer. As you know, one of the most useful properties of science is scientific theories. They are used to make predictions about natural events or phenomena that have not yet been observed. Because we believe god still interacts with us today, when can we expect a scientist, such as yourself, to develop a theory modeled around the existence of our god that can be used to predict, and be confirmed by, observation of future events?

I believe he dodged the question. His answer simply pointed to a few bible verses from both testaments that he thinks correlate with our recent understandings of the origin of the universe (big bang) and therefor can be used as evidence to support the existence of the christian god/jesus over a Muslim or Hindu god (his words). He unfortunately never said the word "theory" during his answer. In fact, he never said anything that remotely related to the development of a scientific theory founded upon evidence of the christian god/jesus.

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