(April 23, 2016 at 5:14 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 23, 2016 at 3:41 pm)SteveII Wrote: We were discussing what options an atheist has for an explanation of the universe (or its predecessor)? Carroll (the renowned atheist cosmologist) thinks there is no explanation. Do you know of an explanation that avoids the problem of infinite regression?
Stephen Hawking's "no boundary" proposal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartle%E2%...king_state
The Hartle-Hawkings model does not answer the question of explanation. It is just another theory with a boundary.