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In reply to the discussion: Finally, There Are More Young Americans Who 'Believe' in Evolution Than Creationism [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)besides you?
Please tell me this isn't some clumsy attempt at constructing a strawman?
"Do you understand the causes and conditions prior to said event and what they would be?"
Much of Hawking's lifelong work led to working theories that give us understanding that fits the currently known/observable evidence, but the issue is by no means solved.
Since I can't jam his entire last book through this text field (it is copyrighted after all) the short version is; conditions prior were Nothing. Not vacuum of space, which isn't nothing. Empty space is really quite full of things, especially at the quantum level. But actual true nothing. And that proceeds to form a universe, because based on our understanding of that condition; nothing, true nothing, not even a quantum foam, is unstable.
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