On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Charles Brown wrote:
> So I don't think the idea that this question is scientifically
> meaningless can be defended. Scientists seem to be treating it with the
> same seriousness they treat, say, inflation theory.
>
> ^^^^ CB: Interesting. Their answer doesn't seem to be "God".
Actually, FWIW, both Vilenkin and Hawking have said they have no problem calling God that answer to that question. As Holt puts it in an article he wrote on the subject for Harpers 15 years ago, theistic handwaving is actually fashionable among physicists these days:
Michael