In fact, the Nobel physicist further expressed explicitly his belief that the Big Bang is a myth devised to explain creation. He said he heard Lemaà �tre (who was, at the time both a member of the Catholic hierarchy and an accomplished scientist) say in private that this (big bang) theory was a way to reconcile science with St. Thomas Aquinas' theological dictum of creatio ex nihilo - creation out of nothing.
Thus, the the cosmic view of a Hawking or a Dawkins is just a fancy idea.
Interestingly, one of the earliest Sanskrit word for God is 'Brhma'. Here, 'brh' is expand, 'ma' is the masculine firmament or the first principle.
Meaning thereby that Brahma or God is the fundamental foundation of the cosmic enfolding.
Simplifying it yet more, sans semantics, by Brhma is meant the Transcendental Absolute that is the First Principle of an ever-expanding cosmos reality .
Metaphysically, it means the unchanging reality is that the cosmos is an ever-expanding phenomena; which, contracting expands, and expanding contracts - infinitely, for all times.
Yet, being unchanging, the ultimate reality is that even though seemingly expanding and contracting - as if, in the ever-going process of creation and dissolution - the First Principle is never changing, is constant, ever unchanging!
That is to say, that despite the seeming constant phenomenon of changing - of seemingly being created and destroyed - the Universal Constant, in essence, always stays unchanging.
Infinite, and Eternal. As the Unchanging Truth of the Absolute.
Forever unto itself as the Universal Self.
As the Fundamental Principle of Allness, Oneness, an Unchanging Whole of No-thing-ness. A "no thing", yet not nothing! But all things! Everything.
This is the God of self-realized freemystics, at all times, everywhere.
"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. Particles are just schaumkommen (appearances)." ~ Niels Bohr [Nobel prize in Physics]
Therefore, after all is said and done, in quintessence, all stays as is. Forever an Ever-ness. At the root-level, structurally as the quantum reality, the f undamental reality stays u nchanged. Ever the Same.
"[Scientific knowledge is] lots of fun. You get lots of correlations, but you don't get the truth." ~ Barbara McClintock [Nobel prize in physiology/medicine]
It is a hypothesis of the present-day popular cosmologists and entertaining theoretical physicists, that the "collapsed" or "contracted" universe cannot again "expand". Meaning thereby that this cosmic existence, at some point, ends. Yet, many a Nobel laureate as Heisenberg, Max Planck, Erwin Schrodinger, Niels Bohr, and Hennes Alfven etc. may well disagree - with the Hawking and the Dawkins of this "no god" world of today.
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