Is Stephen Hawking proclaiming "THERE IS NO GOD!"?

real talk homeboy

many people put up with the shit they do, go home and pray for forgiveness and a better life in death...

if that system became disrupted, you'd see a lot of pissed off people

 

I don't see why? I can't speak for all religions, but the Bible doesn't say that aliens don't exist, nor that Earth is the only source of human type life in the universe. It's just not addressed, most likely because people at the time it was written would have been unable to grasp that concept because they did believe Earth was the center of the universe. But still, it wouldn't challenge my belief system at all if aliens turned up on my doorstep.

 

I see a lot of people making comments about Hawking but the article shows he is not really clear on if there is or isn't.

“We also don’t believe in miracles. If there is a God, it’s not a God that intervenes in the universe,” he said.

He also said in one of his books

"If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

Something that doesn't exist can't have a mind.

He also gave an idea that is dead on with mines!

In an interview with Reuters last year, Hawking said he was "not religious in the normal sense."

"I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science," he said. "The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."
hence the I help those who help them selves comment!

Lastly, the man is a theoretical physicist. His theories are hard to prove. You aren't going to find very good experiments to prove them and we only put theories in books that are not that hard to prove or come close to prove(theory of evolution or of relativity).

 

Very well put my friend

 

Hawking is a very intelligent man and also openminded in the sense of Science not disproving God, because it does not IMHO. There are a gazziliion angles to take on that. Considering that his arena is a lot like religion for many I recon, he is very wise to take this stance and I think he grasps it better than many other hard core scientists that believe science and religion are mutually exclusive.

I am a scientist but also a believer and I have never thought that science and religion is mutually exclusive. If anything - the more I learned in science, the more convinced I became that there must be a bigger power behind it all. I never cease to be in awe of scientific matter and in only strengthen my spirituality, not lessen it.

 

No proof from Hawking, therefore his final conclusion isn't really 'scientific', just a theory IMO.

According to Hawking, the universe spontaneously created itself.
And Earth was the winner of the universe's ultimate existential lottery.

Why can't more scientists/physicists freely admit there are fields of knowledge outside their discipline of study??

When you take it back all the way to the beginning, the argument for the presence of a supernatural force at play makes more sense to me than believing that a Lexus in the middle of Yellowstone Park just 'appeared' there, like a rock in the dirt.:smt059

 

Anten is pathetic.

 

Most of you can disprove the existence of god by taking a hard and honest look in the mirror.

 

That's actually the root of my belief. Do you have any idea how truly beautiful we all are my friend?

 

Really? What do you call the fact that you're hiding in front of your computer calling me names?

 

You've tried this method personally??

 

Stephen Hawking is the new televangelist - lining his pockets with offerings from atheists who don't even understand his work. He comforts the atheist with his Theory Of Everything - and says, "in the beginning there was everything. Same as it ever was..." And the atheist takes it on faith...

 

Damns straight! about theory

Most of what Hawkins is interrested in are theories and the physics he is interrested in borders to philosophy as you cant really prove it with experiments.
He never claims god dodnt exists though, he implies that god could be behind the rules that govern the universe and its birth. God could have set that in motion, that is what Hawkins is saying. He is one of the few hard core physicists that open that door for religion to exists simoulotaneously w science. He does not deny that god exists.

So there is where I stand, a scientist that believe that a greater beingw as behind it all. Again, strong believer of that Science and Religion is not mutually explusive.

 

Wow - I didn't realize. Are you a Chemist; or - as your name implies, an Aerospace/Aeronautical Engineer?