Hawking likes to make a sensational claim every now and again if nothing else just to say hey i'm still the man! i'm still here! i'm still the smartest 21st century cosmologist on this blue marble
Perhaps a bit of revision to the thread title. The reason why young earth Creationist Christianity, Judaism, and Islam seems so unrealistic and naive. Since we're talking about origins and all. It's the 6, 24hours days point of view that is out of whack in the context of the subject matter. There are those creationists who view the Genesis record as 6 eras of unknown length of time seeing as the means in which time is kept was created on the 4th creation day. Many of them embrace evolution (macro specifically as there's no debate with micro with most theists) and big bang cosmology. Some even view life on Earth as not the only life possible in the Universe. Just that life on earth is unique.
I disagree. We only have to side scroll on the first page, and the graphic is worth it. What annoys the hell out of me is when some idiot posts some ridiculously long URL that makes side scrolling for the whole page necessary.
So you adhere to the ancient-astronaut theory of life on earth. Nothing wrong with that EXCEPT it still tells us nothing about the origin of life, i.e., where did the ancient astronaut come from? Resetting the origin of life from Earth to Planet X still tells us nothing about the origin of life on Planet X ... or anywhere else. So-so science fiction, bad scientific theory.
I have a electrophysics degree. I don't adhere to anything. I keep an open mind and have an opinion that evolves as additional information comes in. I don't wrap my identity up in that opinion. As I said, I believe there is a God, I'm just not so sure he is the supreme being of the universe. I rather think there is a more practical explanation. Something more empirical. Something more... mundane.
Sort of like turtles all the way down? What's empirical about god's? Or even aliens for that matter? If God isn't the supreme being, then we get caught in an infinite regression problem of what created it, and created the thing that created it and so on and so forth. Turtles. All the way down. I don't mean to knock you. Just that those two things stuck out in my mind. Figured you wouldn't take too much offense since to your credit, your ideas are still evolving. If only we could all be so honest in our beliefs and ideas.
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Right. I get the picture's message. Though who are you referring to as the baby, the dirty bath water, and the woman?