On this week’s episode we look at the question whether everything could have just popped into existence from nothing. Is this really possible or is there some bending of the rules going on? How far will we go to avoid God’s great love?
“The intended subtext, of course, is that one will be scientific only to the extent that one is nonreligious. To be “religious,” in the narrow sense intended here, is to believe that there is something unique, special, or intentional about our existence and the existence of the cosmos. “Science” here has a special definition as well. Rather than a search for the truth (scientia means knowledge) about nature – based on the evidence, systematic study, and the like – science becomes applied naturalism: the conviction that the material world is all there is, and that chance and impersonal natural law alone explain, indeed must explain, its existence.” Gonzales and Richards, The Privileged Planet, 2004
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.” Hawking, The Grand Design, 2010
