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Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe
Daily Telegraph ^
| 02 Sep 2010
| Laura Roberts
Posted on 09/02/2010 6:21:27 AM PDT by tlb
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To: tlb
“but it wouldn’t be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.”
That doesn’t logically follow.
Requires an assumption of a fact not in evidence.
If there were an infinite God (which I believe there is) wouldn’t He want to reveal Himself? Of what possible purpose would a Creator create something for no reason?
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:10:37 AM PDT
by
vanilla swirl
(We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
To: tlb
Sounds like Stephen has some gum on his wheel.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:12:51 AM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: PreciousLiberty
Actually, I was thinking it was Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's series.
But I could be wrong.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:14:15 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: dfwgator
The Bible says God created the world in 7 days, I dont take that literally, after all a day is the time it takes for the Earth to revolve one time, its a man-made unit of measure. To God, a day may very well have been millions of years
I've thought that for years. My Pastor and I disagree on it - he thinks it's 7 literal days. To me, a God big enough to create something as expansive as the Universe wouldn't measure his time based on how long it takes the Earth to make one revolution.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:19:28 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(YouTube My Space and I'll Google your Yahoo.)
To: reagan_fanatic
To me, a God big enough to create something as expansive as the Universe wouldn't measure his time based on how long it takes the Earth to make one revolution. Then you need to read the passage again. When was the sun created? It certainly wasn't before days were mentioned. Perhaps our revolution around the sun was based on a day, rather than the other way around?
I'm certainly not saying this is the case, but it cannot be disproven, either. I just find it interesting that the sun wasn't created until the fourth day.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:23:35 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce; reagan_fanatic
Revolution, orbit. I know I mixed them up. Sorry.
My point still stands, though.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:24:55 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: tlb
Let’s see now ... Trinity, Hiroshima et. al. demonstrated that matter can be converted to energy; I understand it’s been demonstrated experimentally that energy can be converted to matter.
But, if you start with neither, how is either “created”?
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:27:41 AM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: tlb
Dude vistited the taxidermist some time ago, now just a prop.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:28:48 AM PDT
by
dusttoyou
(Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
To: RockyMtnMan
The Bible says through Christ Jesus, God spoke the worlds into existence.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:29:00 AM PDT
by
carton253
(Ask me about The Stainless Banner - a free e-zine dedicated to the armies of the Confederacy.)
To: ShadowAce
Just as Jesus didn’t leave any ambiguity about who He was, so God didn’t leave any in the Creation days. You have to make a choice - believe man or believe scripture. Due to the order given in Genesis 1, you can’t warp scripture to “fit” man’s understanding or assumptions of creation.
It was a supernatural event, as we’ve determined here by the “ex nihilo” factor. So, yes, the sun, moon, and stars were created later than “light” existed.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:29:18 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: shiva
God is Dead. — Nietzsche
Nietzsche is Dead. — God
To: Boogieman
It seems, Hawking making a declarative statement was that was needed all along. Who knew?
To: shiva
God is Dead. Nietzsche
Nietzsche is Dead. God
Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead. — Butch
To: tlb
Sitting there in his wheel chair, unable to move, unable to speak, barely able to communicate with the world outside, alone with his thoughts, he reminds me of that line from Hamlet “I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.” Oh yes, bad dreams: he believes in God, everyone does, he just doesn't know it, or want to admit it.
To: ozark hilljilly
I totally believe in the Big Bang, but "someone" had to pull the trigger. ; )
I agree. "On the first day God said let there be light"
If one where to contemplate the beginning of the universe. That would be one heck of a big bang!
I checked your personal page. I liked the picture,and I don't need an explanation.
For those who need one read Atlas Shrugged.
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:39:04 AM PDT
by
painter
(No wonder democrats don't mind taxes.THEY DON'T PAY THEM !)
To: TSgt
God always existed. Logical fallacy of special pleading.
Our weak little minds cant wrap around the concept of forever. We only understand time as having a finite beginning and end.
Science has already played with the idea that time is not absolute. Time going in one direction only as we experience actually creates a problem in physics. In a "something from nothing" universe a timeline is assumed ("from"), but a timeline did not necessarily exist.
We cant fully comprehend infinity.
Already been done. Our mathemeticians even do math using infinity. The "infinite monkeys crating all the works of Shakespeare" exercise is meant to explain infinity.
To: ZULU
As my favorite Bible teacher says... the Bible is what God has chosen to reveal about Himself to finite. There are many mysteries left that He chose not to reveal...
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:47:40 AM PDT
by
carton253
(Ask me about The Stainless Banner - a free e-zine dedicated to the armies of the Confederacy.)
To: Boogieman
Okay...so let me think. There was this rock, and the rock was lonely so it wanted to create more rocks to keep it company. The rock thought, hey, I will become a universe. But, first I have to blow myself up. A bit dangerous to me, but I will give it a try. Oh my, I have no fuse, no ignition, how am I going to explode? That's okay, I have a Theory. And, thus the universe was born.
But I still don't get it...who made the rock?
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:48:55 AM PDT
by
CitizenM
("Do you miss me yet?" Yes, George, we do.)
To: tlb; wagglebee
So this is the atheist story of creation then. Keep it out of our schools.
There can be no more support for atheism and state than for church and state. The no god god cannot become the “defacto” state religion.
To: CitizenM
"But I still don't get it...who made the rock?" Who made the person who made the rock?
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posted on
09/02/2010 7:52:22 AM PDT
by
mlo
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