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== Antipathy to the idea of beginning ==

== Antipathy to the idea of beginning ==

[[John Lennox|J.C. Lennox]] points out that the supporters of various schools of [[materialism]] violate the scientific [[Socratic principle]] by letting their worldview to play a role in their antipathy to the idea of beginning. Among them are [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] (cf. ''"Did the God created the world, or has the world been in existence eternally?"''), [[Stephen Hawking]] (cf.''"the idea that the time has beginning...smacks of divine intervention"'') and Sir John Maddox, a former editor of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' (cf. ''"ultimite origin of our world [gave creationists] ample justification [for their beliefs]"'').<ref name="LENNOX"/> To many the notion of the beginning of the universe was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event -the creation.<ref>{{ref book |title=Darwin's Black Box |author=Michael J. Behe |publisher=Free Press |location= New York, London |year=1996, 2006 |pages=244 |isbn=978-0743-290319 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4IKhPwAACAAJ&dq=behe+darwin%27s+black+box&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DEPBUbS_GoKI4gT9oYCoBg&redir_esc=y}}</ref> The prominent physicist [[Arthur Eddington|A.S. Eddington]] also voiced his utter disgust with such an idea:

[[John Lennox|J.C. Lennox]] points out that the supporters of various schools of [[materialism]] violate the scientific [[Socratic principle]] by letting their worldview to play a role in their antipathy to the idea of beginning. Among them are [[Friedrich Engels|Engels]] (cf. ''"Did the God created the world, or has the world been in existence eternally?"''), [[Stephen Hawking]] (cf.''"the idea that the time has beginning...smacks of divine intervention"'') and Sir John Maddox, a former editor of ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' (cf. ''"ultimite origin of our world [gave creationists] ample justification [for their beliefs]"'').<ref name="LENNOX"/> To many the notion of the beginning of the universe was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event -the creation.<ref>{{cite book |title=Darwin's Black Box |author=Michael J. Behe |publisher=Free Press |location= New York, London |year=1996, 2006 |pages=244 |isbn=978-0743-290319 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4IKhPwAACAAJ&dq=behe+darwin%27s+black+box&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DEPBUbS_GoKI4gT9oYCoBg&redir_esc=y}}</ref> The prominent physicist [[Arthur Eddington|A.S. Eddington]] also voiced his utter disgust with such an idea:

''"Philosophically, the notion of an abrupt beginning to present order of Nature is repugnant to me, as I think it must be to most; and even those who would welcome a proof of the intervention of a Creator will probably consider that a single winding-up at some remote epoch is not really the kind of relation between God and his world that brings satisfaction to the mind"''<ref>{{cite book |author=John MacQueen, Stanley L. Jaki |title=Cosmos and creator |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |year=1980 |pages=5, 145|isbn=978-0707-302904|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=i0PBUe-qOoiC4ATMjIDwDw&id=MhouAAAAMAAJ&dq=jaki+cosmos+and+creator&q=repugnant#search_anchor}}</ref> The late Professor [[Carl Sagan|C. Sagan]] wrote in the introduction to the book ''"A brief history of time"'' by [[Stephen Hawking]] that ''"This book is also about God...or perhaps about the absence of God...a universe with no edge in space and no beginning or end in time [leaves] nothing for the Creator to do."''<ref name="DismantlingBB"/>{{#tag:ref|cf.[[Horror of a unique position]]|group=note}}

''"Philosophically, the notion of an abrupt beginning to present order of Nature is repugnant to me, as I think it must be to most; and even those who would welcome a proof of the intervention of a Creator will probably consider that a single winding-up at some remote epoch is not really the kind of relation between God and his world that brings satisfaction to the mind"''<ref>{{cite book |author=John MacQueen, Stanley L. Jaki |title=Cosmos and creator |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |year=1980 |pages=5, 145|isbn=978-0707-302904|url=http://books.google.com/books?ei=i0PBUe-qOoiC4ATMjIDwDw&id=MhouAAAAMAAJ&dq=jaki+cosmos+and+creator&q=repugnant#search_anchor}}</ref> The late Professor [[Carl Sagan|C. Sagan]] wrote in the introduction to the book ''"A brief history of time"'' by [[Stephen Hawking]] that ''"This book is also about God...or perhaps about the absence of God...a universe with no edge in space and no beginning or end in time [leaves] nothing for the Creator to do."''<ref name="DismantlingBB"/>{{#tag:ref|cf.[[Horror of a unique position]]|group=note}}