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To: bentway who wrote (583993)	9/2/2010 12:47:56 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576170

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but what Hawking said there is NOT a finding of science, it's a matter of his personal religious faith.

To: bentway who wrote (583993)	9/3/2010 11:39:58 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1576170

In the beginning there was nothing and then out of that nothing a big bang. This is not science but faith. Faith in God's explanation in Genesis is for more plausible and rational than believing in the hypothesis of one of God's creatures. At least by definition God (omnipotent and omniscient) has the ability to perform this but Mr. Hawkings as , like Lucifer, is mere creature and does not possess that ability within himself. Again, like Satan, he proposes a hypothesis that he knows better than the one omniscient and omnipotent God how to achieve this task of creation. Jesus demonstrated his total mastery over created matter and spirit--he raised the dead, walked on water, turned H2O into C2H5OH,etc. A reading of the Gospels will give one a far more accurate picture of the origin of the universe than a reading of Mr. Hawkings hypotheses.

To: bentway who wrote (583993)	9/4/2010 11:53:28 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576170

You think the Big Bang Theory explains existence? I suppose it is a more advanced train of thought than the "we are riding on the back of a giant turtle" guess, but just barely. All it does is kick the "we don't know squat" can further down the road. The simple existence of any part of the universe, including us, is enough to boggle the mind of anyone that ever gave it much thought......The one universal truth is and always has been that we don't know. But man's vanity will always lead to attempts at explaining the unknowable. If there is a supreme being, I'm sure that in his or her spare time the puzzle of existence(their own) has crossed their mind. There is absolutely no reason for anyone to feel overly superior about their particular favorite guess.

To: bentway who wrote (583993)	9/5/2010 1:50:31 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576170

God was not needed to create the Universe" That's noot really a scientific point, its mostly a theological belief by a famous scientist, but it isn't supported (and it isn't refuted), by anything in science. Science perhaps can't (and certainly can't now) ever really tell us anything about God. Also science can't tell us much about the actual beginning of the universe. We have plausible theories (but not actually solid tested knowledge) about very very close to the big bang, we have nothing but speculation about the actual instant of it happening, or anything before (or whether before is even meaningful, the big bang is often seen as the start of time as well, but not in every theory). Basically Hawking is just saying "I am an atheist".