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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016029)" |
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| Does God have |
| Free Will? |
| ny discussion of free will is incomplete without some mention of |
| about such a fundamental concept, we must consider whether |
| the Universe would be any different if it had a creator. |
| Recently there have been two widely publicized attacks on religious |
| belief from the scientific community: the head-on attack from Richard |
| Dawkins in The God Delusion or, the hard hitting sideswipe by Stephen |
| Hawking in The Universe in a Nutshell. |
| Hawking made the front pages in 2000 with the statement: "There |
| is then no need for a creator." He was considering whether God needed |
| to ignite the Big Bang or if it occurred as a natural result of the laws of |
| physics. Hawking had run the mathematics and realized a god was not |
| needed to light the blue touch paper for the Big Bang - the laws of physics |
| spontaneously caused it. His argument does not actually preclude the |
| existence of a god, but it does move the point where we need a creator |
| one step further up the chain. |
| This is not a fundamental change to the progress of theological |
| argument over the last thousand years. Once we abandon our vision |
| of God as a master builder, literally breathing life into Adam while |
| putting the finishing touches to the Garden of Eden, we can move him |
| up the causal chain as far as we like, eventually reaching a point where |
| intervention is necessary to get things started. Hawking is only pointing |
| out an intervention is not needed at the point of the Big Bang. It still begs |
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