Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the universe

[solja247]

1. Which one of the hundreds of gods are you referring to? Zeus, Apollo, Poseidon, Allah, YHWH, Athena, Mithra, etc. You are quick to dismiss most of these beings as they were imagined by the cultures of the time and because we have zero evidence for their existence. What makes your god different?

How about the creator of the universe?

2. I say he can't think for himself because he relies on some ancient book written by ignorant goat herders to tell him how to live and think.

And hes the ignorant one...

3. See the above reply. He is trying to counteract scientific arguments by quoting ancient fairy tales. That to me is being full of shit.

I dont know why he quotes from Genesis, it is rather weird.

I know enough to know theists like to imagine some invisible divine entity looking after their every move and knowing their thoughts and rewarding or punishing them accordingly. "Invisible sky daddy" is a humorous term to describe these characteristics.

I know some theists who only read KJV (dont ask me why) does that mean all theists do it? Some of us arent ignorant and do have doubts

Because it is not needed. Scientific branches such as biology, astronomy and physics have provided us with invaluable knowledge about how the universe and living organisms came to be. No scientific hypothesis requires the existence of some divine force creating and controlling everything.

um no. when you talk about how the universe started, you are in the field of philosophy (which Stephen Hawkings says is dead?)