Re: “I have read thousands of scientific publications. I have never read anything like you describe.”
Not exactly sure which part of my last post you are referring to but Stephen Hawking recently said:
“There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the universe.”
Harvard geneticist, Richard Lewontin, “The problem is to get [people] to reject irrational and supernatural explanations of the world, the demons that exist only in their imaginations, and to accept a social and intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only begetter of truth.”
Isn’t that the same thing as saying that we may not know how the universe began, but we do KNOW that it can’t be God? When Hawking and others define belief in God being the initiator of the existence of the universe as “irrational” and “outside the realm of science” yet claim that the universe created itself from nothing IS rational and within the realm of science - that sounds a bit contradictory or hypocritical to me.
And these represent their opinions, not findings published in peer reviewed scientific publications.