Replies to post #258 on Philosophy and Spirituality

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I don't think he knows the most important secret.

Admittedly, I didn't read the entirety of your post yet, but I skimmed a lot of it. Hawking evidently thinks the big bang theory eliminates the need for an external agency (God) to have created the universe.

The big bang theory starts with matter having an infinite density, and time doesn't exist. But matter exists, and so do the laws of science. How is that? How does this infinitely dense matter just happen to be. Why are the laws of science what they are. How do they just happen to be? Note that as a scientist, Hawking must have faith. He has to have faith that the laws of the universe are uniform and constant throughout time and space. If the world was not uniform and constant, there would be no value derived from scientific experimentation, as the results could not be replicated in another lab or another day.

For as long as we can know, differing peoples all around the world have sensed that there was indeed an external agency that created the universe. We call that agency by many different names, God, Dios, Allah, Jehovah, etc., but we all know that there is an origin and meaning to the uniform and constant laws of science. Unfortunately, for all his brillinace, this knowledge eludes Mr. Hawking.