> He's interested in a different question -- not how the universe came to
> take its present form (a question for what we would call science),
> but, as
> Stephen Hawking put it, "You still have the question: why does the
> universe bother to exist? If you like, you can define God to be the
> answer to that question" -- and that's exactly what Aquinas does.
And I say, how could the universe not exist? So there's no question to answer.
Jon Johanning // jjohanning at igc.org __________________________ Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. (Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams")