Atheism contd..

Those of you that are proponents of Intelligent Design should read the book - The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking. Actually, everyone should read that book. It is an amazing tome that tackles in a very readable manner, the origins of the universe. That said, I will admit that while I followed most of the book, I did get a little lost around the string theory aspect of it.

Here is the gist of it as I understood it : The universe has laws. We typically deal with Newtonian laws when we think about our universe. But, at the point of creation of the universe - just after the big bang , the only laws in effect were quantum laws. These are the laws that govern the behavior of sub-atomic particles. When dealing with quantum particles, it turns out that there is no one specific possibility. For e.g. the line from point A to point B on a graph, that on a newtonian scale looks straight, doesn't work that way in the quantum world. Particles take every possible path from point A to point B . The resulting line is not guaranteed to be straight, all that can be quantified is the probability of the end result. Well, the long and the short of it is, at the time of the Big Bang , on a quantum scale many many universes were likely created. Each one would have been ended up with a different set of laws and constants. Many of these universes would have not survived, because the resultant laws were not sustainable. Ours happens to be one where the laws were conducive to the growth of the universe.

All of this has been empirically proven - this isn't the word of God ! This isn't scripture. So, what you call intelligent design is really a roll of dice. If you want to call this cosmic roll of dice God, do so,  but then you are probably claiming that this mighty God has no idea what he was doing ..