From G. Barber
G.Barber@uea.ac.uk
The scientific enterprise in finding natural explanations for natural phenomena may seem to squeeze God out of existence, as assumed by Stephen Hawking in A Brief History of Time, but it only removes the “god-of-the-gaps” that had been invoked solely to explain such natural mysteries.
If a complete explanation for the origin of the Universe in terms of natural laws and mathematical equations is ever found then the question could still be raised: “Who is the author and guarantor of those laws?” Or as Stephen Hawking himself vividly asks: “What breathed fire into the equations?”
