Apparently Stephen Hawking not only thinks that spontaneous creation from nothingness is somehow a scientific concept: he also claims that "philosophy is dead" (and as I point out, this is hardly surprising given the core anti-intellectualism lurking behind his amateur philosophizing). Here's a reaction from Burke's Corner: In his failure to exercise modesty in his pursuit Continue Reading …
Stephen Hawking: “Nothing” has more explanatory value than “God”
Stephen Hawking makes perhaps one of the dumbest forays by a scientist into philosophy that I have ever seen: That is not the answer of modern science. As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe Continue Reading …