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Well, according to today's news, Stephen Hawking has figured out that God didn't create the universe. Now, as it happens, he does expect me to believe in aliens and M-theory: "11 space-time dimensions, 'vibrating strings, ... point particles, two-dimensional membranes, three-dimensional blobs and other objects that are more difficult to picture and occupy even more dimensions of space'" (CNN.com). Maybe I'm misunderstanding Occam's Razor here, but it seems infinitely simpler to buy the idea of God than this rather tortuous workaround.
In any case, Hawking seems to have missed the point. When I ask the question, "Why am I alive?" the answer, "Because gametes from your parents joined and the resulting blastocyst implanted and began to divide," is obviously not the answer to my question, whether or not the response is technically correct. It seems to me that the only questions that can occur to me are those that are ultimately answerable, and answerable in the real sense in which I mean them.
