"Theology unnecessary", Stephen Hawking

[james_chaw]

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Theology unnecessary, Stephen Hawking tells CNN
By the CNN Wire Staff
September 11, 2010 -- Updated 1106 GMT (1906 HKT)

(CNN) -- Theology is unnecessary. So says Stephen Hawking, the world-famous physicist who controversially argues in a new book that God did not create the universe.
"God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator," Hawking told CNN's "Larry King Live" in an interview that aired Friday.
Hawking, 68, says in his book "The Grand Design" that, given the existence of gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. "Spontaneous creation," he writes, is the reason why the universe and humanity exist.
"Gravity and quantum theory cause universes to be created spontaneously out of nothing," Hawking told Larry King.
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[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Of course he needs money thats why he promotes his new book for a new wheelchair . Tsk tsk tsk .

[personalmgt]

I have a bad feeling this is going to be another atheism warfare thread.

Thread lock in 3, 2...

[miyay]

but what was the CAUSE that created gravity? what created the laws of physics? theory of the small man iya no? if the universe started with a single atom, what created that single atom?

[The_Child]

neither theology nor physics can claim absolute truths.

[Tirong-say]

neither theology nor physics can claim absolute truths.

Agree, absolutely.........for now.

[Ice Knight 7]

No matter how awesome are our logic is, we still cannot comprehend the bigger reality that houses this reality.