[Avodah] Stephen Hawking and God

[Harry Maryles]

--- On Tue, 9/7/10, Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org> wrote:


    > Why is there something instead of nothing?

    Why do we exist?

    Why does this particular set of laws govern our universe and not
    some other set?
    ...

   The conclusions that follow are groundbreaking. Of all the possible
    universes, some must have laws that allow the appearance of life. The
    fact that we are here already tells us that we are in that corner of
    the multiverse. In this way, all origin questions are answered by
    pointing to the huge number of possible universes and saying that
    some of them have the properties that allow the existence of life,
    just by chance...
    ...

As USA Today quotes from the book:
    Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than
    nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to
    invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.
 
 
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I see no new explantaion here that eliminates God in explaining our existence. Stating that there are multiple universes just increases the numbers. Big deal! Why does it matter how many universes there are? So what if some of them contain life sustaining conditions. Even assuming that is true - Who created them? It is illogical to say that they created themselves - spontaneoulsy! WRT the origins of the universe (or multiple universes) - what makes M-theory any different than a single universe theroy?
 
HM
 
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