Some thoughts regarding Hawking's ideas

I recently viewed some of Hawking's lectures and I was stopped by two main propositions he puts out…

- The dilemma of what was before the Big Bang started - which is called upon as an evidence for an initiator by believers in God - is dismantled due to the "No time before Big Bang " notion, therefore it is meaningless to ask what comes before. He relates the paradox to the question of what is south of the south pole ?

• To me, it does'nt interest me much what was before the big bang, but rather what caused, triggered or prompted the explosion ? It had to be another incidence that exists outside our spacetime frame.

- The second proposition is that he compares the expanding universe, to bubbles in boiling water. Some of these bubbles fail growing to a stable size and collapse down, and some succeed in doing so. In that proposal, Hawkings succeeded – perhaps not deliberately – in putting out another proposal : Many big bangs occur, and very few succeed to being a stable universe; a state which only occurs when these bangs initiate at the correct conditions

• To me that is a possibility, but it is just like the one that says that amongst the many, many planets, earth – by chance – had the conditions to survive, and amongst the many, many chemical reactions in the earth's early stages, life – by chance – came to existence. So yes, at least he provided a way in which given belief in extreme improbabilities along with extreme number of chance shots, one can imagine life without intelligent creation. And I believe that convincing people to believe in such extreme improbabilities is the unbelievers best shot, and I believe it is kind of like a quest to try to explain how explosions in a scrap yard - over many years - can lead to the formation of a Boeing 747.