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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 2, 2010 at 4:48 pm
He's done so for near a decade now, this is just the first book he's published that states his position.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 2, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Thanks VOID ! I was unaware of that.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 2, 2010 at 5:34 pm
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(September 2, 2010 at 5:07 pm)chatpilot Wrote: Thanks VOID ! I was unaware of that.
Yeah I always thought he held a weak atheist position and his "mind of god" comment in the brief history of time was only made to emphasize a point (and also because he ran out of ideas to explain the beginning of everything). It seems he stills holds at least that view.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm
No, in the Brief history of time era he was certainly a deist, this is more apparent from his interviews than the book it's self (albeit a weak one), his position has simply changed from "God is likely be behind" to "god doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it but i still find it likely personally" to "god isn't needed at and shouldn't be used".
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 3, 2010 at 3:25 pm
(September 2, 2010 at 5:36 pm)theVOID Wrote: No, in the Brief history of time era he was certainly a deist, this is more apparent from his interviews than the book it's self (albeit a weak one), his position has simply changed from "God is likely be behind" to "god doesn't necessarily have anything to do with it but i still find it likely personally" to "god isn't needed at and shouldn't be used".
That basically defines intellectual evolution.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 3, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Stating that God has nothing to do with the scientific understanding is neither theistic not anti theistic.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 3, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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(September 3, 2010 at 3:46 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: Stating that God has nothing to do with the scientific understanding is neither theistic not anti theistic.
Can't agree with that. If a god played any role at all in anything in our universe (eg materialised a god / himself in human form) the he must be disposed to being detectable by science. For instance if god was simulataneously god and nailed to a cross, he was observable and could be measured.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 3, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I don't see how that applies Cap'n. Do you need to understand a biblical message with scientific evidence? No... you need to link the material and the non material.
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RE: Stephen Hawking an Atheist?
September 3, 2010 at 4:49 pm
(September 3, 2010 at 4:16 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I don't see how that applies Cap'n. Do you need to understand a biblical message with scientific evidence? No... you need to link the material and the non material.
According to the thesim the immaterial created the material. That would be a link!
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