(March 16, 2018 at 6:22 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(March 16, 2018 at 1:44 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: Are they making a claim about something? Or just giving their opinion? If the first, then the questions is why. If the second, then the question is why is this relevant.
You seemed to imply that because Professor Hawking was not a "good philosopher", that his research in cosmology was not relevant to the atheist viewpoint.
In short, Hawking said that his research led him to conclude that it was not necessary to believe that a god (or gods) created the Universe any more than it was necessary to believe that planets and stars move because there are angels (or other invisible beings) who are pushing them.
Like I said, philosophy wasn’t his strong suit. I find this to be fairly common, among those who publically scoff at philosophy. Quite the shock...I know! And if that is representive of his view of religion, then I would dare say he had a poor and naive grounding in that area as well.
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
