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Originally Posted by Howard Beale
While reading Hawking and Mlodinow's 'The Grand Design' I kept thinking that it was at least as much philosophy as it was science. I was expecting only science but found it to be an interesting read.
I have not read the book, but I heard WLC discuss it. Apparently the OP topic is also discussed in that book, and he does say there is a lot of philosophy.
WLC objects to Hawking's argument that God is not able to have been the cause since there was no time, by saying that the cause and effect are able to happen simultaneously. Gods creating the universe was co-incident with the universe coming into being, they occur together on the boundary of space time.
Here is the
video if anyone is interested, but he is not kind to Hawking, so fair warning.