The chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks argues in the Times today that Hawking’s hypothesis proves nothing because religion is about seeking interpretation of reality while science seeks to explain reality. Thus, religion is about the meaning of life and history. Religion doesn’t need to address how the conscience was created or started off, but this, I think, is to surrender an important piece of ground too readily. Science has still not explained who created matter out of nothing.

Apparently, the latest argument for why the Universe has chanced upon such perfect equilibrium is that there are many other universes. Ours was just lucky enough to hit the one-in-a-trillion jackpot of the perfectly combined balances that allow for life. This seems to me an even more unlikely explanation for the creation of a perfectly designed universe than the obvious possibility that there is a designer God.