Posted by MEYER on August 05, 1998 at 19:02:07:
In Reply to: Response posted by Carlos on August 05, 1998 at 18:08:32:
You use the term "creation" as if it can be
separated from "creator" - it can't. "Creation" requires (or at least strongly implies) "creator". In that sense, you
have misrepresented Hawking, who believes in a beginning, not a creation.
Ok, I'll use the word beginning. I'm a "beginnist". rpcman told me there was no creator, I asked for evidence. That's not a negative.
Hawking believes in a "beginning". He postulates a singularity the size of an atom or infinitly smaller that contained all matter of this universe. That's faith in every sense of the word. There is no evidence for this only numbers on paper. It is an impossibility under our natural laws. He calls it a singularity, I might call it God. Both are as scientific as the other.
Creation, beginning whatever you say, but that is a neat play with words. I'll have to remember where I heard it.