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I guess that settles that. It's always interesting to be reminded Hawking is British. He doesn't sound English.
1 posted on 09/02/2010 6:21:32 AM PDT by tlb
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Hawking is a charlatan when he is ONLY a scientist who wants to appear as omniscientist knowing everything.
This guy is also a militant/activist who mixes hese opinions with scientific data...It’s not serious and honest.

He is used as a tool by some MSM


73 posted on 09/02/2010 6:43:25 AM PDT by Ulysse (s)
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I wonder what type of medications Hawkin is on now? The Universe is so complex that we could not understand it if its operation was explained to us. The Universe’s accomplishment has been to create something that is aware of it.


74 posted on 09/02/2010 6:44:23 AM PDT by Citizen Tom Paine (An old sailor sends)
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Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing

"Nothing" has no mass and therefore cannot be acted upon by the force of gravity, right? I mean, even I know that much (I think.)

"Nothing" also implies lack of anything, including the law of gravity since that "law" must exist within a "universe" that has a system of causes and effects.

This implies one of my favorite questions to scientists:

"Just where, exactly, did the Big Bang take place? After all, it had to happen somewhere and have something into which to expand, right?"

75 posted on 09/02/2010 6:44:31 AM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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“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.”

Color me skeptical. I know the guy is smart, but I find it hard to believe he's conversant in an entire branch of physics, lets call it ex nihilo, that no one else has a clue about.

77 posted on 09/02/2010 6:45:19 AM PDT by papertyger
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“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

If the Big Bang depends on gravity, and gravity depends on matter/energy, and the Law of Thermodynamics says the stuff is constant and can't be created, then how can there be gravity if you start with nothing?

Or, to quote noted physicist Billy Preston, "Nothing from nothing leaves nothing".

78 posted on 09/02/2010 6:45:27 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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So the atheists believe that the “laws of physics” preexisted physicality itself. That’s good to know. I always wondered about that.


83 posted on 09/02/2010 6:47:16 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Hanistarot LaShem 'Eloqeynu; vehaniglot lanu ulevaneynu `ad-`olam la`asot 'et-kol-divrey HaTorah!)
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The creation of the universe and the creation of man can be answered in simple terms, “God created everything”. I feel that the answer is not that simple, its beyond our comprehension, and our brains are not yet fully developed to comprehend it. I won’t knock Hawkings on his believes or theories because we can’t prove it one way or the other. He could be right or he could be wrong, at this point, its like saying God created man, or did man create God? I do believe that Hawkings IQ level far exceeds that of the average person and I do not believe he is the spawn of the Devil.


84 posted on 09/02/2010 6:48:28 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Put Alan West on the fast track, to the White House! Kick a$$ in 2010 and 12)
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He's looking healthier these days.

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88 posted on 09/02/2010 6:50:38 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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The universe as we know it might have begun as a big bang, but where did it all begin even before that? Hawkings’s answer is short sighted.


91 posted on 09/02/2010 6:50:56 AM PDT by CodeToad (Islam needs to be banned in the US and treated as a criminal enterprise.)
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A point of infinite energy is not “nothing”
The entire universe was created from something, but not something tangible to the human mind.


95 posted on 09/02/2010 6:52:54 AM PDT by snarkbait (<<For Rent>>)
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Doesn’t that just mean that God created the Universe by simply thinking about it? He didn’t even have to lift a finger!


96 posted on 09/02/2010 6:53:09 AM PDT by RockyMtnMan
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So brilliant and yet so foolish.

Where does he suppose “laws” come from?

Laws represent order, and order comes from design.


102 posted on 09/02/2010 6:58:31 AM PDT by Elpasser
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Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

That's a pretty goofy non sequitur, Professor.

103 posted on 09/02/2010 6:59:22 AM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

Uh...

...is it necessary to invoke anything to light it...?

Uh... ...or... ...did it just light itself???

Something must have lit it.

Whatever that Something is...is...well... ...uh God.

Poor Stephen. He's finally gone over the edge.

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

"Oh what a noble mind is here o'erthrown."

104 posted on 09/02/2010 6:59:50 AM PDT by Savage Beast ("True evil has a face you know and a voice you trust." Greg Iles. "True Evil")
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Those who assert that there is no God, have a reason for doing so.
I am so thankful for receiving God's Divine Gift of Faith.
I truly feel sorrowful for those who have not received this gift, or who have received it and then discarded it through the sin of Pride. Say a prayer for Steven. He actually believes his argument holds water.
105 posted on 09/02/2010 7:00:22 AM PDT by J Edgar
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Bottom line..ta,ta....,”There Is NO God”. This man is a fool!


108 posted on 09/02/2010 7:01:04 AM PDT by shiva
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Stephen Hawking.
What a dumbass.


111 posted on 09/02/2010 7:02:18 AM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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It’s very godlike of him to make such a statement.


112 posted on 09/02/2010 7:04:27 AM PDT by samtheman
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“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?


121 posted on 09/02/2010 7:10:37 AM PDT by vanilla swirl (We are the Patrick Henry we have been waiting for!)
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Sounds like Stephen has some gum on his wheel.


122 posted on 09/02/2010 7:12:51 AM PDT by MarineBrat (Better dead than red!)
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