Letter: Creation problem

From Heinrich Kruger

Physicist Stephen Hawking, responding to suggestions that there may be no avoiding a creation event in cosmological theories, said that “a point of creation would be a place where science broke down” and that “one would have to appeal to religion and the hand of God” (14 January, p 6).

This sounds too much like a “god of the gaps” argument to me. It’s OK to admit we don’t know – and might never know – how the universe began. Saying “God did it” doesn’t answer anything.

From Michael Dowling

So the point of creation of the universe is presently, and perhaps permanently, beyond the grasp of science. Perhaps it is best left to the philosophers.

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Utrecht, The Netherlands