Stephen Hawking Picks Physics Over God for Big Bang

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/02/stephen-hawking-picks-physics-god-big-bang/ ^

[MNDude]

Physics was the reason for the Big Bang, not God, according to scientist Stephen Hawking.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," the professor said in his new book, in a challenge to traditional religious beliefs.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going," he wrote in his book "The Grand Design," extracts of which are printed in London newspaper The Times.

The book, co-written by American physicist Leonard Mlodinow and published next week, sets out to contest Sir Isaac Newton's belief that the universe must have been designed by God as it could not have created out of chaos.

He cites the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than the Sun.

[2banana]

There is nothing in physics where you get something out of nothingness...

[TribalPrincess2U]

You’re full of sh***, Hawking.

[MrB]

as someone posted on the earlier thread:

Stephen Hawking,
what a dumbass.

[ConservativeDude]

Physics was the reason for the Big Bang”

What is the reason for Physics?

[GeronL]

God doesn’t exist because gravity does?

Someone spiked his IV!!

[muawiyah]

Stuff is popping up out of the vacuum all the time. It’s a something from nothing Universe allatimeeverywhere.

[Venturer]

If there were no God there would be no physics, there would be no Universe,there would be no professor who did not believe.

That is what I believe.

[kjenerette]

"...Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.."

Where did gravity come from?

[Hilda]

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing,"

If there is "nothing," there is no "law such as gravity," Stephen.

[knarf]

Hawking may be a brilliant and amazing man, but scriptures refer to him as a fool.

I think God is true and all men liars.

Steve .. you've been allowed more chance and leeway than any hundred men combined and you won't recognize the One that allows your next breath.

[BelegStrongbow]

And, Prof Hawking, the law existed because...

[SamuraiScot]

Stephen Hawking Picks Physics Over God for Big Bang

In other news, God picks the prayer of the humble publican over that of the smug Pharisee.

Hard luck for you, Hawking.

[Cyman]

Stephen’s anger for his illness does come out at times.

[Tolsti2]

Wrong, virtual particles. And on the edge of black holes one gets sucked in and one doesn’t creating X-rays out of nothing at all.

[Westbrook]

> There is nothing in physics where you get something out of nothingness...

The atheist's creed ...

• Everything came out of Nothing from Nowhere for No Reason.
• Life is just a curious side effect of an unknowing and uncaring cosmos.
• When you die you are just so much compost.
• Ergo, the best you can hope for is a life of self-gratification and a painless extinction.

[MNDude]

wasn’t there some episode from Little House on the Prairie where Laura pushed him down a hill into a swamp?

[VideoDoctor]

Stephen Hawking Picks Physics Over God for Big Bang

Not as intelligent as we believed him to be.

[brytlea]

Well, except Congress...

[2nd Amendment]

I’ve just read several books on physics. The arrogance and the conceit of these men playing “God” appalls me. Einstein had the humility to say that “God does not play dice” and looked for structure in the universe as did Newton.