Stephen Hawking

[IWantGod]

I agree with that. I think (and this is me pushing my position based on no evidence!) that atheists are searching for the Faith they are missing, but don’t realize it. That is what gives them the emotional investment.

I also think they are mad because “Atheists Don’t Have No Songs”

Would you say that we are all looking (naturally desiring it) for the good but we don’t all know what the good is. In other words we don’t all know that what we are all really looking for is God.

 

[omgriley]

Stephen Hawking says he proved that there was nothing before the big bang. How can he make such a wild claim? How can something come from nothing? Is he talking about only the material world and since God/ Heaven is not material in an earthly sense it didn’t get picked up in his calculations? I’m not a mathematician by any means but he says he used the theory of singularity to get his results. Thoughts?

Because he’s a moron? LOL, just kidding.

It’s my understanding that when he uses the word “nothing,” he isn’t using it in the proper sense. “Nothing” when used philosophically describes an absolute state of negation. When Hawking uses it, he’s referring to some type of empty cosmic vacuum.

The obvious question then is, why is there a cosmic vacuum in the first place?

Hawking and co. are in the business of answering “What” questions. When it comes to the “Why” they are actually very poor.

 

[jfz178]

Yeah, that rings true.

 

[STT]

“Suppose (M, g) is complete, connected and non-compact with sectional curvature K ≥ 0, and there exists a point in M where the sectional curvature (in all sectional directions) is strictly positive. Then the soul of M is a point; equivalently M is diffeomorphic to Rn. “

What does this ever mean?

 

[AlNg]

What does this ever mean?

In the context of this thread, it means that the mathematical soul conjecture
does not prove the existence of an immortal spiritual soul.