The Horrors of Evolution (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 15:57 (5745 days ago) @ George Jelliss


> Although Roger Penrose is an outstanding mathematician, his views on the chances of the initial state of the universe, like his views on consciousness, are very much his own and don't seem to be shared by many other physicists. He himself describes his scenario as "a fanciful description" (The Road to Reality, p.730). Victor Stenger argues convincingly for the initial state being a total void; but we've been over all this before.
 
Naughty, naughty, George! Quoting Penrose out of context to try and make a point. Penrose is supplying a fanciful description of God trying to find with a pin the exact spot to prick the phase-space volume to created our universe. His math is dead serious as it was in "The Emperor's New Mind". I'm sure my page 730 reads just like yours does. And I can't let the Stenger reference go either. He is not of the same stature of reputation as Penrose, especially since he thinks an absolute void is allowed to contain virtual quanta.