Stephen Hawking: The Afterlife Is A Fairy Tale For People Who Are Afraid Of The Dark

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[decadecadeca]

" In A Brief History of Time, his earlier work, he wrote that when we understood why we and the universe existed we would “know the mind of God”."

He's changed his mind four times on this subject already.

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" In A Brief History of Time, his earlier work, he wrote that when we understood why we and the universe existed we would “know the mind of God”."

He's changed his mind four times on this subject already.

this is the problem with people like you. by "mind of god" he means the creator of everything. now that we understand how we were created we understand "the mind of god".

you hear what you want to hear.

he changed his mind 4 times did he? got any facts to back that up?

[decadecadeca]

"He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics."

BBC News - Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

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"He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics."

BBC News - Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

He is no different then avarega guy who is trying to make a living by writing couple of books. :D

[decadecadeca]

"One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!"

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), pp. 8-9.

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"He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics."

BBC News - Stephen Hawking: God did not create Universe

yes he said that it was not incompatible with science 20 years ago before we had the answers we need to make the final conclusion.

so where is this "changed his mind 4 times at"?

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He is no different then avarega guy who is trying to make a living by writing couple of books. :D

only difference being that he is one of the greatest scientist of the 20th and 21st century and the average guy is not...

[decadecadeca]

"So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."

Stephen Hawking. 1994, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge

[decadecadeca]

yes he said that it was not incompatible with science 20 years ago before we had the answers we need to make the final conclusion.

so where is this "changed his mind 4 times at"?

You're being the one who refuses to see the truth now. He's made numerous statements about his belief in God, the creator, in his books and lectures.

He's said God exists and probably created the universe like this, God exists but doesn't take an active role, God may not exist, God doesn't need to exist in order for the univers to form, God doesn't exist at all....etc....

He'll change his mind again before he dies, maybe back and forth several times. Don't be like those other hillbilly rubes and follow what any man says blindly. Think for yourself.

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once again, "god" as in an ultimate creator, not "god" as you think of god.

his point back then was that its not outside the realm of science for there to be an ultimate creator. now that we understand more and have made huge leaps forward it can be concluded that the universe can indeed create itself from "nothing"..

you are confusing his terminology with what you think of as "god".

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You're being the one who refuses to see the truth now. He's made numerous statements about his belief in God, the creator, in his books and lectures.

He's said God exists and probably created the universe like this, God exists but doesn't take an active role, God may not exist, God doesn't need to exist in order for the univers to form, God doesn't exist at all....etc....

He'll change his mind again before he dies, maybe back and forth several times. Don't be like those other hillbilly rubes and follow what any man says blindly. Think for yourself.

he never once changed his mind. he stated that there is room for a "god" in the world of science. he never said "there is a god". not once.

[decadecadeca]

"I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."

Quoted in "Stephen Hawking prepares for weightless flight", New Scientist (26 April 2007)

[decadecadeca]

once again, "god" as in an ultimate creator, not "god" as you think of god.

Tell me, how do I think of God?

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Tell me, how do I think of God?

when hawking talks of a "god" he is talking about the laws of nature and science. he is talking about elements and chemical structures.

you think of a god as a religious person things of a god. a being that oversees all of this.