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To: mattstat
Excellent article. I watched one of Hawkings programs last night and the thing which struck me most, was how many times "luck" was invoked in his explanation of how the universe and we came about.

Gravity was "luck." The narrow imbalance between matter and anti-matter was "luck." The improbable location of Earth at exactly the right point to allow life to "evolve" was "luck." Etc. etc.

In his effort to explain away the "luck" factor as being proof of God's existence, he comes up with an infinite number of possible universes in which the various lucky occurrences don't happen . . . not exactly sure how that proves God isn't necessary, but it seems to convince him.

Atheism is more reliant on faith than is any of the other world's religions. Millions of "coincidences" must occur against astronomically small odds for the universe to be as it is today. That's a lot of faith in science.

I'll stick with God, thank-you very much.
11 posted on 09/04/2010 8:37:01 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: Sudetenland

I have a great deal of respect for science but even science was created by God.


12 posted on 09/04/2010 8:39:17 AM PDT by Ev Reeman
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