Stephen Hawking: So Here's How It All Happened without God

[pocaracas]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/articl...ll-2013-04

Even some of the more faithful might have wondered over the last few days whether there truly is a God.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking would like to help. Let's imagine there isn't, seems to be his preference.

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Instead, he thinks: "We are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe."

I certainly feel like the product of quantum fluctuations on many days of the week, don't you?

As Hawking advances in years, God is clearly very central in his mind. As the L.A. Times observed, Hawking was asked what, besides his wheelchair, he would like to control.

"What I would really like to control is not machines, but people," he said. Which, some might observe, sounds God-like -- in a remarkably ungodly way.

Still, he believes contemporary religions are so suspicious of science that they actively discourage it.

Well, I thought it would be nice to share, although, the article is crap.

[Napoléon]

I just got done reading a Brief History of Time, he does make reference to some deistic concept of a god quite a bit, but usually clarifies that in the natural universe the idea of a god is simply not necessary. Or rather, that the laws of the universe don't really leave much room for an 'omnipotent' god who 'created' the place.

[Cyberman]

Quite so. If anything, he evokes the spirit of Spinoza's god, in the sense that it was employed by Einstein.