Abstract
Scientific cosmology raises various issues of philosophical interest. Among these is the understanding of the beginning', as it arises in normal cosmology, which seems not intelligible as an ordinary beginning ('in time'), but rather as a beginning 'of time'. Recent cosmologica! research that seeks to unite theories of gravity and of quantum physics is speculative; various proposals with different philosophical perspectives on time and reality co-exist. This plurality of speculative cosmologica! proposals reflects also a diversity of views regarding the nature of explanations. 'Anthropic principles' are not fruitful as additional explanations. It is argued here, however, that any cosmologica! proposal will always have an open end, due to limit questions that arise in relation to the scientific research but are not answered by it. These limit questions allow for various religious interpretations, theistic, pantheistic and agnostic.
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