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A review by rolandwolfheart
The Grand Design by Leonard Mlodinow, Stephen Hawking
challenging
informative
mysterious
reflective
slow-paced
3.5
A bit dense and technical but it promotes several important ideas:
1. The world is more complicated than we think. If a random lay person claims to understand how the universe came about and quantum physics, they probably don't.
2. We don't need a God or creator to explain the world and universe.
3. Just because an unlikely event happened does not mean the world was finely tuned to have that event occur. Think of the lottery, the probability of winning is very low, yet people win. That doesn't necessarily mean the lottery was "fine tuned" to allow that person to win.
Would need to read this again with a physics or astronomy buddy but overall an interesting read.
1. The world is more complicated than we think. If a random lay person claims to understand how the universe came about and quantum physics, they probably don't.
2. We don't need a God or creator to explain the world and universe.
3. Just because an unlikely event happened does not mean the world was finely tuned to have that event occur. Think of the lottery, the probability of winning is very low, yet people win. That doesn't necessarily mean the lottery was "fine tuned" to allow that person to win.
Would need to read this again with a physics or astronomy buddy but overall an interesting read.