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Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
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Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/scien...verse.html

Quote:In his latest book, The Grand Design, Hawking said: “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.”

He added: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

So according to Hawking, because of the law of gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing and the Big Bang was the inevitable result of the laws of physics.

I would like to get hold of his new book and find out how he reaches these conclusions.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493

Same story, different news source.
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
I've got the Eureka extract... so I've made an initial response.

Enjoy dragoncon Adrian!
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I too am curious about the "Gravity necessitates existence" part...
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
For who hasn't seen it, I find Lawrence Krauss' "A universe from nothing" very interesting.

Heck, I'll post the video on the forums.
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
It's a good video too, but Krauss pointed to Quantum fluctuations as the cause, not a gravity related "state collapse" for the initial monotype energy - this is something i haven't heard much of... Now i can't wait for this book Smile
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
(September 2, 2010 at 4:50 pm)theVOID Wrote: It's a good video too, but Krauss pointed to Quantum fluctuations as the cause, not a gravity related "state collapse" for the initial monotype energy - this is something i haven't heard much of... Now i can't wait for this book Smile
What does Hawking or Krauss know, jaysus dun it Wink Shades

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(September 2, 2010 at 5:26 pm)Captain Scarlet Wrote: jaysus dun it

Nuh Uh! It were 'is daddy wut dunnit.
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
Dey bof gun an dun it, hez dadiez words at da start.
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RE: Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe
y'all best go n' believes in god or y'alls is goin' to dat darn place down thar! ...... lol
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