Stephen Meyer traces that instinct forward to Stephen Hawking's no-boundary proposal, and argues that quantum cosmology doesn't eliminate the need for a creator so much as relocate it. To solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in a way that yields a universe like ours, a physicist has to restrict degrees of mathematical freedom — which means imparting information into the system. Meyer's question: who's doing the imparting?
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