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Originally Posted by FlorenceArt
Very nice quote!
The "And who created him" part is one that puzzles me. Not the question in itself, but the fact that nobody seems to care much about it. Of course, if you're an atheist like me, you don't think that question is needed. But if you believe in any kind of creator, it seems to me that this is the question that should hang in blinking neon in front of you every waking minute: if there is a creator, who the hell created it? And who created the creator's creator? And do I want to meet any of those entities?  |
I thought there were at least three quotes there, but since they were interwoven, I decided to quote the entire passage to give more context.
If a divine creator exists outside of time, there would be no need of the question of who created that creator, but that begs the question of why couldn't the mechanical processes by which the universe came into being exist outside of time? And if they do, why would a creator be necessary? Creator or not, the question remains: why should there be anything at all?
For his part, despite the frequent use of the word "God" in his writings, Hawking remains agnostic on the question of God as commonly understood. When he speaks of "the mind of God," he is usually speaking of the natural laws of physics.