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Originally Posted by avandonk
A 'God' has always been invoked when human understanding was found wanting. This is known as a god of the gaps in our knowledge.
All Hawking is saying is that we do not need a 'god' to kickstart the Universe.
I am an atheist only because I do not believe in any man made religion. To put it simply I just do not believe in one god less than the rest of the multitude of gods people believe in!
I personally think we are all linked forever to the Universe that spawned us. We are inexorably linked through space and time through the very particles that make up our being.
We are all children of the stars and that includes super novae.
Bert
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I like this view best.
Many thousands of years ago when the conditions were right the extra strings to our Genetic model were added, probably from the stars. How, who knows. This gave us the power to think. We then searched for our origins. Since then superstitions and wars have shaped our destiny.
If you subscribe to infinity as without start or end the generation of the universe as been going on forever through "big bangs" and collapses "ad infinitum"
Who knows? It is what you believe that makes your world go round.
Barry