  We present well-controlled results on the metal to insulator transition (MIT)
within the paramagnetic solution of the dynamical cluster approximation (DCA)
in the two-dimensional Hubbard model at half-filling. In the strong coupling
regime, a local picture describes the properties of the model; there is a large
charge gap $\Delta \approx U$. In the weak-coupling regime, we find a symbiosis
of short-range antiferromagnetic correlations and moment formation cause a gap
to open at finite temperature as in one dimension. Hence, this excludes the
mechanism of the MIT proposed by Slater long ago.
