Hawking is claiming that physical law created this universe...John Lennox is one of the men who is argueing against this. The interviews found here (Part 1 and Part 2).
What do you think...is philosophy "dead" as Hawking claims?
What implications does the creation of the world by physical law have on how we treat each other?
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This is a very intriguing post and I think that the last question given is an important one. If we are all simply the products of a natural set of processes then it stands to reason that there is no universal string of morality that ties us all together because our evolution would be predicated on an individualistic perspective of survival of the fittest. Therefore genocide (Nazi Germany, Stalinist Russia, and Pol Pot's Cambodia) becomes all too conceivable in order to eradicate a group of "undesirables" from the gene pool. Rape becomes necessary to propagate a civilization from one man (Khan) and every other mode of violence that one person can inflict on another becomes not only possible but also necessary in our biological makeup. The fact that there appears to be a universal understanding of suffering through empathy and sympathy is proof that we are not just the end result of some cosmic unguided experiment. An interesting read on Hawking can also be found here: http://www.leaderu.com/real/ri9404/bigbang.html
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