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Did god create the universe? Stephen Hawking
March 21, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence - Carl Sagan
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RE: Did god create the universe? Stephen Hawking
March 21, 2012 at 1:12 pm
Yeah I watched all three episodes of this on Netflix. Stephen Hawking is probably the most loveable physicist ever. He seems so happy, upbeat, and enthusiastic about everything despite the fact he's rendered near-immobile. The almost child-like enthusiasm he 'shows' when he's talking about the "party for the people from the future" thing had me grinning like an idiot. The man is inspiring for so many reasons, not the least of which is his brilliance and his refusal to let his condition affect the way he lives his life.
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RE: Did god create the universe? Stephen Hawking
March 21, 2012 at 1:19 pm
(March 21, 2012 at 1:12 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Yeah I watched all three episodes of this on Netflix. Stephen Hawking is probably the most loveable physicist ever. He seems so happy, upbeat, and enthusiastic about everything despite the fact he's rendered near-immobile. The almost child-like enthusiasm he 'shows' when he's talking about the "party for the people from the future" thing had me grinning like an idiot. The man is inspiring for so many reasons, not the least of which is his brilliance and his refusal to let his condition affect the way he lives his life.
Yeah I loved this on Netflix. It made me feel like I was five again. I kept going "wow. That's incredible! The universe expanded faster than the speed of light after the big bang? Antimatter?!! There are almost no collisions between stars when galaxies merge?!" Hawkings is really funny too!
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RE: Did god create the universe? Stephen Hawking
March 21, 2012 at 2:53 pm
Are you taking on Microsoft Dar, They'll 'send the boys round' you know.
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RE: Did god create the universe? Stephen Hawking
March 22, 2012 at 12:35 am
(March 21, 2012 at 1:12 pm)Creed of Heresy Wrote: Yeah I watched all three episodes of this on Netflix. Stephen Hawking is probably the most loveable physicist ever. He seems so happy, upbeat, and enthusiastic about everything despite the fact he's rendered near-immobile. The almost child-like enthusiasm he 'shows' when he's talking about the "party for the people from the future" thing had me grinning like an idiot. The man is inspiring for so many reasons, not the least of which is his brilliance and his refusal to let his condition affect the way he lives his life.
Are you sure you're not talking about Into the Universe? This isn't available on Netflix.
"Sisters, you know only the north; I have traveled in the south lands. There are churches there, believe me, that cut their children too, as the people of Bolvangar did--not in the same way, but just as horribly. They cut their sexual organs, yes, both boys and girls; they cut them with knives so that they shan't feel. That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling. So if a war comes, and the Church is on one side of it, we must be on the other, no matter what strange allies we find ourselves bound to."
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