Hk1: Brief answers to Big Questions
Chapter
1: Is there a God?
Conclusion of the chapter: “The simplest explanation is that
there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This
leads me to a profound realization: there is probably no heaven and afterlife
either. “
Based on: Ruling out the necessity of “the role of God for any modification of the laws of science”,
particularly in:
- Running of the universe and ability to intervene. “The assumption of science is scientific determinism. The laws of science determine the evolution of the universe given its state at one time. These laws may or may not have been decreed by God, but he cant intervene to break the laws or else they won't be laws. That leaves God the freedom to chose only the initial state of the universe but even here it seems there may be laws. So God would have no freedom at all. “ The initial state discussed below.
- The creation of universe in the first place.
- The ingredients. No need for matter, only energy and space needed. Space is itself the negative energy storage device. So everything adds up to nothing and follows the laws of conservation of energy and hence no special role of God.
(Argument:
God produced them this way. Answer;
it can be this way without God? How?
Mentioned below)
- Annihilation and pair production the basis of no need of a creator for the formation of a particle (and hence all the gross things particles make up by combination). (Causation/effect is observed only at gross levels.)
- No time before the big bang so no cause/designer could have existed before that.
