The “Cosmic bootstrap” principle
From the article: https://www.rzim.org/read/just-thinking-magazine/stephen-hawking-and-god/?inf_contact_key=43e265dddcaf61a9bd18a674ba2ade87#5. …the statement “the universe can and will create itself from nothing” is self-contradictory. If I say, “X creates Y,” this presupposes the existence of X in the first place in order to bring Y into existence. If I say “X creates X,” I presuppose the existence of X in order to …