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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

The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.

In his latest book, The Grand Design, an extract of which is published in Eureka magazine in The Times, Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”

“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

In June this year Prof Hawking told a Channel 4 series that he didn't believe that a "personal" God existed. He told Genius of Britain: "The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions."

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: atheismandstate; atheist; atheistsupremacist; bigbang; book; god; hawking; stephenhawking; thenogodgod
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To: momtothree; tlb
Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

So, why is there a law such as gravity? Mr Hawking is a smart man (although not a wise one) and he has succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of "starting points" more than most. But he has not explained everything. There is always a "why".

21 posted on 09/02/2010 6:27:40 AM PDT by Vanders9
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To: tlb

Someday he will meet his maker and answer for his arrogance.


22 posted on 09/02/2010 6:27:54 AM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind.)
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To: allmendream
Make that... the architect, homeowner, financier, owner of the construction company, trainer of the worker, builder of the raw materials, etc.

Yeah, unless he came on the job site and pounded those nails personally- HE wasn't needed.

23 posted on 09/02/2010 6:27:58 AM PDT by allmendream (Income is EARNED not distributed. So how could it be re-distributed?)
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To: tlb
Neither was Stephen Hawking.
24 posted on 09/02/2010 6:28:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: tlb
"Spontaneous creation"?

Yawn.

Where did the forces come from that enabled this "spontaneous creation"? Gravity created itself?

Does this kind of intellectual laziness pass for "science" these days?

25 posted on 09/02/2010 6:29:46 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: tlb

There was no chicken, just the egg said a different way.


26 posted on 09/02/2010 6:29:53 AM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: tlb

One day science will have answered all the questions in the universe except one.

And then they will refuse to answer that one remaining question because it will prove beyond doubt that God exists.

And God will laugh.


27 posted on 09/02/2010 6:29:53 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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To: allmendream

Why would the universe bother to create itself.


28 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:06 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: ShadowAce

gee, I could have said it that way!
LOL!!


29 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:12 AM PDT by silverleaf (Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.)
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To: dps.inspect

1 Cor 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.


30 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:14 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: MrB

Ah, the highly underrated Billy Preston.


31 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:34 AM PDT by wideawake
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To: Boogieman
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32 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:42 AM PDT by mkjessup ("Wait by the river and your enemies will float by" - old Japanese proverb, and I'm waitin'.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009
seriously, this guy is so overrated.

Anyone who's read A Short History of Time knows that.

33 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:49 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (The success of Darwinism was accompanied by a decline in scientific integrity. - Dr. Wm R. Thompson)
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To: tlb

I am sure that God laughed at him for such a thought!


34 posted on 09/02/2010 6:30:59 AM PDT by Buddygirl
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To: momtothree

Really!!

What the f&^% is the universe (or anything else for that matter) WITHOUT the consciousness of man?


35 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:05 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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To: BuckeyeTexan

Hey, ALL paths lead to God...
yes, they certainly do.

All but one path leads to God as JUDGE,
and that one narrow path leads to God as Savior.


36 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:35 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: tlb
God Stephen Hawking was not needed to create the Universe.

There. Fixed it!

37 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:41 AM PDT by PacesPaines
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To: tlb

And here I thought Hawking was intelligent.


38 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:45 AM PDT by carton253 (Ask me about The Stainless Banner - a free e-zine dedicated to the armies of the Confederacy.)
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To: tlb

Hey Stephen,

Romans 1 will help explain your thinking...

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools


39 posted on 09/02/2010 6:31:45 AM PDT by steadcom
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To: tlb

Hawking has no more insight into questions like that then any random guy on the street.


40 posted on 09/02/2010 6:32:46 AM PDT by DManA
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