{"id":377,"date":"2010-09-11T15:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/?p=377"},"modified":"2010-09-11T20:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T18:32:13","slug":"det-er-lett-lage-teorier-som-eliminerer-gud-men-hva-sier-de-om-virkeligheten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2010\/09\/det-er-lett-lage-teorier-som-eliminerer-gud-men-hva-sier-de-om-virkeligheten\/","title":{"rendered":"Det er lett \u00e5 lage teorier som eliminerer Gud, men hva sier de om virkeligheten?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stephen M. Barr skriver i First Things<\/a> om Stephen Hawkings nye bok om Guds eksistens (som jeg nevnte ogs\u00e5 her<\/a>). Han er ikke s\u00e6rlig imponert over innholdet i boka:<\/p>\n

Has physics done away with God? A newly release book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow says, \u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n

What is a Jewish or Christian believer to make of this? Is the Creator now out of a job? The short answer is (unsurprisingly) no: the ideas propounded in Hawking\u2019s book constitute no threat whatever to the Jewish and Christian doctrine of Creation.<\/p>\n

The idea that Hawking is now touting is not new\u2014in fact, within the fast-moving world of modern physics it is fairly old. My first introduction to it was reading a very elegant theoretical paper entitled \u201cCreation of Universes from Nothing,\u201d written in 1982 by the noted cosmologist Alexander Vilenkin, who argued that our universe might have arisen by a \u201cquantum fluctuation.\u201d<\/p>\n

This idea is sometimes referred to as the quantum creation of the universe. There are different variants, but the basic idea is well-known among particle physicists and cosmologists.<\/p>\n

Right up front, it must be noted that this idea is extremely speculative, has not yet been formulated in a mathematically rigorous way, and is unable at this point to make any testable predictions. Indeed, it is very hard to imagine how it could ever be tested. … <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Og Barr avslutter sitt innlegg slik:<\/p>\n

…. Physics scenarios and theories are merely mathematical stories. They may be fictional or describe some reality. And just as the words of a book by themselves can\u2019t tell you whether it\u2019s fact or fiction\u2014let alone have the power to make the world they describe real\u2014so with the equations of a physics scenario. As Hawking once understood, equations may turn out to be an accurate description of some reality, but cannot not confer reality on the things they describe.<\/p>\n

What Hawking called in his previous book the \u201cusual approach of science\u201d is in fact the only genuinely scientific approach. From the time Hawking wrote that earlier book until now, nothing has changed in this regard: theories of physics are still \u201cjust sets of rules and equations.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are two answers to the question: \u201cWhy does anything exist rather than nothing at all?\u201d The atheist answers, \u201cThere is no explanation.\u201d The theist replies, God. An intelligent case can be made for either answer. But to say that the laws of physics alone answer it is the purest nonsense\u2014as Hawking himself once realized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen M. Barr skriver i First Things om Stephen Hawkings nye bok om Guds eksistens (som jeg nevnte ogs\u00e5 her). Han er ikke s\u00e6rlig imponert over innholdet i boka: Has physics done away with God? A newly release book by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow says, \u201cYes.\u201d What is a Jewish or Christian believer to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetikk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}