NARLIKAR CREATION OF THE BIG-BANG UNIVERSE WAS A MERE ORIGINATION - DISCUSSION

In Grunbaum (1989, 374, 390), 1 objected to Narlikar's (1977, 136-137) designation '' event of 'creation''' tor a supposed first cosmic inst ant t = 0, which he imports into the big bang cosmology of the general theory of relativity (GTR). Narlikar (1992, 361-362) does reject a th eological construal of the ''creation''. But, endeavoring to justify h is secular creationism, he now points out that, in the GTR, the usual derivation of matter-energy conservation from Hilbert's stationary act ion principle cannot be extended to include the putative first instant t = 0. Narlikar reasons that this ''breakdown'' in the derivation of energy conservation at t = 0 qualifies the putative initial event as t he -creation event''. I argue that this inference is multiply fallacio us.