Yes Fred Hoyle rejected the Big bang, what's the point. He was still a well respected astrophysicist and is one of many scientists that mark the fine tuning as astronomically significant.
yes Hawking did proclaim God is not needed to explain the origin, but I have made no such claim. Hawking's quote on p.125 was "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life." That was all I was saying.
yes Hawking did proclaim God is not needed to explain the origin, but I have made no such claim. Hawking's quote on p.125 was "The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron. ... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been very finely adjusted to make possible the development of life." That was all I was saying.
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