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<BR>Subject: [agathiyar] Why the universe was created
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<BR>Dear netters,
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<BR>"Although Science may solve the problem of how the universe began, it
<BR>cannot answer the question why does the universe bother to exist"
<BR>- Stephen Hawking, the noted British Cosmologist
<BR>(I saw this in a documentary on him and he uttering this when he was
<BR>receiving some honors from the Pope or some such religious
<BR>institution).
<BR>Stephen Hawking asks this question in the context of existence of God.
<BR>To me this reminds me of the incompleteness theorem of Godel.
<BR>I tend to think, rightly or wrongly, that we can have a closed and
<BR>complete theory (axioms and deductive system that generates theorems)
<BR>by admitting God as the embodiment of the unknowable and the asnwer to
<BR>any metalevel of questions (of which we are capabale of raisisng an
<BR>infinitesmal poriton) about the universe.
<BR>What do Tamil philosophers have to say in this regard?
<BR>Have they raised this question and how have they answered it?
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<BR>Chandra
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