[Avodah] Stephen Hawking and God

[Harry Maryles]

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


On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 09:52:47AM -0700, Harry Maryles wrote:
: 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...

If there is a logical reason for there to be an infinite number of
different laws of physics all coexisting in different places, then there
is no surprise that some of them support life, produced life, and that
that life reached sentience.

The numbers allow one to apply evolution-like arguments to the laws of
physics. Something is unlikely, but if you roll the dice enough times,
even the unlikely will happen.
 
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M-theory is saying that given the existence of anything, and given that
that anything obeys some kind of laws of physics, the fact that one of
its universes includes laws of physics that eventually led to us is
explicable without invoking design.

But what about the existence of laws altogether? Or even the meta-laws
from which those laws arrived?
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Exactly. I can buy a lolgical argument for the origin of life based on a near infinite number universes  each with its own laws of physics - plus a near infinite amount of time. But I cannot buy spontaneous creation. In my opinion Stephen Hawking has not added anything to the propostion that a Creator is not needed.

HM 

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