God is dead says Stephen Hawking, renowned physicist

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Stephen Hawkings now believes there is no God and he did not did not create the universe.

In his new book called "The Grand Design" Hawking refutes his earlier theory that an omnipotent God was possible

The "Big Bang" was merely the outworking of the laws of physics, the British theoretical physicist now argues.

He previously wrote in A Brief History of Time that an all seeing God was definitely a possibility ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

Now he begs to differ . "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," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Hawking, 68, said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped negate the view of Isaac Newton that God was neccessary to help create the order out of chaos.

The new plane circling an alien sun " makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Hawking, has suffered from neuro muscular dystrophy and can only speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer.

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LITTLEGOAT | Sep 03, 2010, 10:13 AM EDT

no i never will believe the statement there is no god nor do i believe god is incompetant. mankind is given time to do great things for his fellow hamans but the choice is indidually ours the final outcome is yat to be seen but eternal values will payoff big time. i believe . i will not be moved.

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blst4m4ev | Sep 03, 2010, 09:32 AM EDT

Creation of the universe was not by accident. It was set in motion by divine action. The All-Knowing God, Creator of the Universe, could very well have caused other universes to form that support life elsewhere. Humans can't possibly believe Earth is the only planet in existence that can maintain life. Open your minds. Humans have limitations, but anything is possible with God.

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cuisle1st | Sep 03, 2010, 05:56 AM EDT

If there is a god then he/she should be sacked for incompetence

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cuisle1st | Sep 03, 2010, 05:53 AM EDT

If there is a god then he/she should be sacked for incompetence.

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LITTLEGOAT | Sep 02, 2010, 08:42 PM EDT

where did gravity come from. i believe in god our creator. their is a source a spiritual being dont act so stupid u are dead wrong.

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IrishAndProud | Sep 02, 2010, 05:48 PM EDT

But...where did the material from the 'Big Bang' itself come from? Where did the 'law' (as Hawking himself calls it) of gravity come from? 'Lucky' as he says, doesn't even come close to describing the odds of the universe as we know it just 'happening'. It would be like a complete and perfect dictionary happening from a print shop explosion. The more incredibly complex we learn the universe (and life, itself) are, the more it makes the case FOR a Creator -- not less. No pun intended, but this is not rocket science. Not a scientist in the world can physically produce a blade of grass (I'm not talking about merely growing it; I mean, actually MAKE one), and not a single weatherman truly knows what will even happen next week -- much less guess about billions of years ago. We mere mortals give ourselves far more credit than we're actually due. The more we learn about the universe, the less we realize we know.

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Southernpride | Sep 02, 2010, 04:58 PM EDT

God bless Stephen Hawkings

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