If I were a scientist, I'd stick to the Goldman Sachs principle: bet on both sides.
"Believe in science, believe in God" seems to cover all the possibilities and gives you the best chance for a cheery afterlife.
For a time, it was thought that astrophysicist Stephen Hawking had also left a tiny gap in his credo window for a magical deity. However, he has now come out and declared that there is no God.
He gave an interview to Spain's El Mundo in which he expressed his firm belief that el mundo was the work of scientifically explainable phenomena, not of a supreme being.
Hawking said: "Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation."
I'm not sure whether there was a specific moment in which science overtook the deistic explanation of existence. However, El Mundo pressed him on the suggestion in A Brief History of Time that a unifying theory of science would help mankind "know the mind of God."
Hawking now explained: "What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist."
He added: "Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science."
Perhaps. But some look at, for example, the human eye and wonder how that exciting ball of jelly could have come about scientifically.
Hawking's been tending toward such an absolute pronouncement for a while. In a speech last year, he offered an explanation of how the world came to being without God. He mused: "What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?"
I do worry, though, about Hawking's sweetly divine faith in humanity. He told El Mundo: "In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind."
If that's true, the human mind still has to develop exponentially to explain everyday phenomena, such as social networking. And then there's Hawking's insistence that his speech synthesizer, which gives him a curiously American accent, has had this consequence:"With the American accent, I've had far more success with women."
We definitely need some serious research to explain that.
He is a fool that has no faith. God, for whom without we would not be. How arrogant Hawking is!
Faith belongs in your fellow man where it can do some good, not in some imaginary perfect human-like persona. The arrogance is in presuming that nature is incapable of producing itself without the help of a human-like persona. Nature can be defined as all that exists and all that occurs naturally, including all life, which can be seen producing and reproducing itself at every moment, in every detail. We know that humans commonly invent fictional characters, including gods, but monotheists insist that one and only one of those fictional characters is not fictional.
There is only one real God, and that is the confidence scam named God. It is very lucrative.
He's had a raw deal in life leaving him in that condition.
Well, in the world that Hawkins lives in there probably is no God, after all he lives in within the limits of his mind.
"In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind."Steve Hawkings, who is supposed to be soooo smart, take the Ivan Pannin challenge? To date, no one has been able to do it.
The mathematical complexities entwined within the original Hebrew and Greek in the Bible are absolutely astounding. Anyone who takes a long look into Ivan Pannin's studies (over 40,000 pages) can easily conclude the same thing Ivan did; There is no humanly possible way this could have been constructed by any mere man. It is irrefutable and by the way, Ivan was also an atheist until he discovered this.
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