of Time" physicist Stephen Hawking made the claim that if his "no-boundary cosmology " was correct then there would be no need for a creator. His cosmological model proposes that there was no precise moment when the universe

Chapter 1. But see Stephen Hawking and the growth of quantum cosmology to understand how later scientific developments have made this consonance less evident. Topic Index More: Stephen Hawking

Press, 2006. Hawking , Stephen. A Brief History of Time . Expanded edition. New York: Bantam, 1998. Hawking, Stephen. The Universe in a Nutshell . New York: Bantam, 2001. Kaku, Michio. Parallel Worlds: A Journey

of Space-Time with Steven Hawking Sandra Faber - Astronomer, discoverer of the so-called "Faber -Jackson relation" Owen Gingerich - Astronomer, author

under the heading Stephen Hawking and the growth of quantum cosmology - in particular the Hawking -Hartle proposal for the early universe. An important element in the contemporary science-and-religion debate is that of theological

all such babies were aborted Stephen Hawking would not have been born. Hawking, who contracted ALS in his early twenties is a very unusual case of someone who has lived with the disease for over 30 years. But what about an illness like Tay Sachs

of creation? ) . Stephen Hawking posed the question: So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose that it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no boundary or edge, it would

speculations (see Stephen Hawking and the growth of quantum cosmology ), going far beyond what could ever be tested experimentally, cannot answer the metaphysical question as to whether the universe had an underlying cause - why, in

of Creation? Stephen Hawking and the Growth of Quantum Cosmology The Hawking-Hartle Proposal for the Early Universe Theological Responses to Quantum Cosmology The ‘Anthropic Coincidences’

of Creation? Stephen Hawking and the Growth of Quantum Cosmology The Hawking-Hartle Proposal for the Early Universe Theological Responses to Quantum Cosmology The ‘Anthropic Coincidences’