12-29-2005, 03:28 AM
Okay... well, if that is the case (and you certainly haven't demonstrated that it is) you're reading much further into Dr. Hawking's beliefs than is reasonable.
This is the man who said that asking what came before the big bang is like asking what's north of the north pole: totally nonsensical. If God exists, he must be "outside" the universe, and not interfering, beyond creating the phenomenal world itself.
A belief in a certain "holiness" that emerges from the elegance of the universe is a long way from a belief that a deity had a hand in the evolution of life on this tiny little rock.
-Jester
This is the man who said that asking what came before the big bang is like asking what's north of the north pole: totally nonsensical. If God exists, he must be "outside" the universe, and not interfering, beyond creating the phenomenal world itself.
A belief in a certain "holiness" that emerges from the elegance of the universe is a long way from a belief that a deity had a hand in the evolution of life on this tiny little rock.
-Jester