Re:Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe
by henrikschroder on Friday September 03, 2010 @06:38AM
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You don't fool me. It's turtles all the way down!
Re:Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe
by T-zex on Friday September 03, 2010 @11:56AM
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I like turtles!
Re:Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe
by dtf on Friday September 03, 2010 @09:45AM
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It's not my argument. It's the god-of-the-gaps argument, hitherto to be found sitting lazily on that rather awesome gap called the big-bang, that Hawking is deftly refuting in his book. I'm just noting, with minor repulsion, the cheap tricks that his publisher seems to have used to turn this non-argument into an argument.
The problem with an infinite regress is that it's, um, infinite.
It sounds like Hawking is trying to refute the claim that everything that exists must have a creator. That's the claim which allows the snooty "who created gravity" response, and also leads to the self-defeating infinite regress. Whether you believe in a creator or not, you're better off without that argument.