09.02.10
Dawkins exploits the Hawking hype
The Hawking/God Debate at the Times
Hawking should have known better than to make assertions about the creation of the universe. Nothing in physics can really answer this question.
Now the whole game gets taken up by Dawkins et al who will think they can do to the universe what Darwin supposedly did to evolution. Don’t let them get away with it, and recall the simple arguments from Kant about the antinomies that frustrated religionists and physicists here.
Physics cannot get past this boundary to make any statements about creation, if any, behind the Big Bang. It will not be hard to defend against this renewed effort to make hype prevail. Don’t let these people impose a myth on the public exploiting the prestige of Hawking. To say you have a new theory dispensing with god should instantly set off the hype alarm (and I am not a theist here), exactly as with Darwinism, where Dawkins got away with claiming Darwinism grounded his atheism.
These people are brazen, and will lie, like Dawkins, so don’t let it happen.
Quite apart from anything else these people have discredited atheism with this abuse.
However, there is another perspective emerging (as implicit in Kantian antinomies, there is a beginning in time, there is no beginning in time,…), and I also recommend
Endless Universe: Beyond the Big Bang — Rewriting Cosmic History
This book may not last long, given the complexity of the issues, but the basic idea has finally found some grounding in physics.
What happened to the fine-tuning ideas, as Dawkins lusts to proclaim a cosmic Darwinism?