[lbo-talk] Darwinian evolution only part of story?

John Thornton jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Jan 28 16:00:56 PST 2010


Dennis Claxton wrote:
> At 10:57 AM 1/28/2010, John Thornton wrote:
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>> Hawking has more than once publicly claimed he wished he had never
>> proposed the idea of a singularity as the beginning of the universe.
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> I know that. It's called revising your theory.
>
> I also know that the latest edition of Brief History of Time, as well
> as Hawking's book called Universe in a Nutshell is replete with
> references to the Big Bang. Hawking does not call it a myth, which is
> what Mage did.

I thought perhaps Shane misunderstood Hawking's reversal on the idea of a singularity as a reversal on the idea of a big bang. Apparently Shane has some other wild belief that I'm not aware of. Nor am I particularly interested in knowing. I thought it was a simple misunderstanding rather than crackpottery at work.

John Thornton



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