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Thursday, September 2, 2010

God did not create the universe, says Hawking

Great Man Hawking!

God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.



In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

"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," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Courtesy: yahoo.com

2 comments:

  1. Ahmed HussainSeptember 19, 2010 at 9:26 PM

    I believe God follows a rythm and we at this stage being able to understand certain sect of his rythm and disregard the original rythm is pure arrogance.

    --ahmed

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  2. YeshSeptember 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM

    I agree with you brother... human belief though, is that, the certain sect of rythm that we claim to understand is at-least in line with Gods original rythm...

    -Yesh

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