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Hawking says there are no gods

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Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
In Stephen Hawking's final book "Brief Answers to Big Questions," published Tuesday (Oct. 16) by Bantam Books, the professor begins a series of 10 intergalactic essays by addressing life's oldest and most religiously fraught question of all: Is there a God? [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]

Hawking's answer — compiled from decades of prior interviews, essays and speeches with the help of his family, colleagues and the Steven Hawking Estate — should come as no surprise to readers who have followed his work, er, religiously.

"I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science," Hawking, who died in March, wrote. "If you accept, as I do, that the laws of nature are fixed, then it doesn't take long to ask: What role is there for God?"
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One of the disadvantages to being an atheist. Those who believe in an eternal afterlife can say "You're going to find out someday, bwahahahaha!!" If you don't believe in an afterlife, then Hawking has just stopped knowing anything. And no one gets to find out anything "later". Kind of sad, really, since I would love to see the disappointment on the faces of some of the self-righteous.
 
p0lka said:
1. Did stephen hawking say there's no possibility of god?
2. Who made stephen hawking the expert on god?
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1. Well yes:

"We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in," Hawking wrote. "For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in."
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2. How can one be an expert on nothing.
 
Everyone who thinks there is no God, take one step forward.

Hmm, Hawking didn’t take a step forward. God bless Him!
 
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The Big Dog said:
Everyone who thinks there is no God, take one step forward.

Hmm, Hawking didn’t take a step forward. God bless Him!
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Wow, harsh.

Hawking was an expert on the way the universe was put together. And his conclusion was that the universe and the laws of physics do not allow for the possibility of anything like a literal deity to exist. This is something that I have suspected for a long time - it's good to have some support for this conjecture from such a prestigious source.
 
It takes an expert to change a pipe or fix a computer. An expert is not required when the issue is not based on specialized knowledge that hardly anyone can master. Since God is not a pipe, anyone can give their reasoned opinion and it will be worth whatever their reasons are worth.

Hawking has resurrected Laplace: if my system explains what needs to be explained, why do I want a god? If I fix the pipe with my tools, why do I want the guardian angel? "I never found a guardian angel in my toolbox, sire".
 
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Again, Hawking was not an expert on god, he was an expert on the universe, which, if a god exists, the universe by definition must contain. His conclusion was that the universe has no space for a god. A god that exists must therefore be outside the universe and incapable of physically interacting with anything within the universe. Thus an god that exists is indistinguishable from one that doesn't exist. Why then propose its existence?
 
Myles said:
Nooo. He not only now knows nothing , he is not even aware that he now knows nothing.
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Speculation. You don't know that he isn't merged with the Pleroma or riding a centaur in the Elysian Fields right now. Perhaps he reincarnated and is even now in the womb, eagerly awaiting his future career as Space Spice in the K-pop revivial Neo Spice Girls group! But will her pop stardom survive a scandalous reveal of a chaste handholding relationship with T!gUR of the future boyband BigC4Tz? We'll find out in just 24 years!
 
In one of his previous books Hawking said, "I don't know if god exists, but if he does, he retired at the moment of the Big Bang."
 
Myles said:
Nooo. He not only now knows nothing, he is not even aware that he now knows nothing.
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But at least he used to be aware that he would now know nothing.

The Big Dog said:
Everyone who thinks there is no God, take one step forward.

Hmm, Hawking didn’t take a step forward. God bless Him!
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The cheapest trick in the book, and it suits TBD fine. I suppose the next one will be that Hawking conversed to Catholicism and received last rites on his deathbed.


Everyone who thinks there is a god, take one step forward.

Hmm, not one single dead pope took a step forward. Nothing to bless or condemn, apparently ...


By the way, does the capitalization of Him mean that Hawking has now been promoted to God in TBD's religion?! Or does the God of Catholics have nothing better to do than to bless Himself???!!
 
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dann said:
Hmm, not one single dead pope took a step forward. Nothing to bless or condemn, apparently ...


By the way, does the capitalization of Him mean that Hawking has now been promoted to God in TBD's religion?! Or does the God of Catholics have nothing better to do than to bless Himself???!!
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Oh no, you misunderstand! I was not suggesting that after he was dead, i was suggesting that happened while he was alive!

Everyone who does not believe there is a god, take one step forward.
actual then living hawking: doesn't move.

And there you have it.
 
Einstein wasn't an expert on god either but that didn't stop people from misrepresenting his views later. Hawking probably didn't want to leave any doubt.
 
The Big Dog said:
Oh no, you misunderstand! I was not suggesting that after he was dead, i was suggesting that happened while he was alive!

Everyone who does not believe there is a god, take one step forward.
actual then living hawking: doesn't move.

And there you have it.
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Is this TBD attempting to make a joke? That the deceased Hawking, when still alive, was an ALS patient for most of his life and thus unable to "take one step forward"?
Is TBD unaware of the fact that Hawking nevertheless was able to "move" since his wheelchair enabled him to do so?
And is TBD so bothered by the fact that Hawking actually 'stepped forward' and declared that there is no god that denial of this fact is the only way for TBD to cope with it?
 
The Big Dog said:
Oh no, you misunderstand! I was not suggesting that after he was dead, i was suggesting that happened while he was alive!

Everyone who does not believe there is a god, take one step forward.
actual then living hawking: doesn't move.

And there you have it.
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So the all-loving ever-merciful God smited him with ALS and the goodly, godly TBD thinks it is funny, eh?

Of course, clever humans managed to make better and better wheelchairs, speech technology and medical equipment.

But you prefer God, do you?
 
The Big Dog said:
Oh no, you misunderstand! I was not suggesting that after he was dead, i was suggesting that happened while he was alive!

Everyone who does not believe there is a god, take one step forward.
actual then living hawking: doesn't move.

And there you have it.
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Lol mockery of the disabled just like Jesus would do eh? Do you laugh at Cristians with ALS and other dibilitting conditions? What about Christian amputees?
 
Hungry81 said:
Lol mockery of the disabled just like Jesus would do eh? Do you laugh at Cristians with ALS and other dibilitting conditions? What about Christian amputees?
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You know who would have found that joke funny?

Stephen Hawking. I mean not laugh out loud funny or slap his knee, but...
 
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