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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (237278)	7/20/2007 11:00:53 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hawking likes to play with the idea of God: "The idea that space and time may form a closed surface without boundary also has profound implications for the role of God in the affairs of the universe. With the success of scientific theories in describing events, most people have come to believe that God allows the universe to evolve according to a set of laws and does not intervene in the universe to break these laws. However, the laws do not tell us what the universe should have looked like when it started -- it would still be up to God to wind up the clockwork and choose how to start it off. So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would have neither beginning nor end: it would simply be. What place, then, for a creator? [Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), p. 140-41.]" But, being a very smart guy, he knows he doesn't know anything provable, and is open to ANYTHING.