Breaking News: Stephen Hawking Doesn’t Believe in God
Even though physicist Stephen Hawking has been an atheist for quite some time, this seemed to be breaking news yesterday. Don’t get me wrong, I think Hawking did make breaking news yesterday, but it wasn’t his lack of belief in a deity.
The media has a really short attention span, because it was just three months ago that they had the same breaking news when Hawking gave an interview in which he stated, “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.”
Still, for some strange reason, the media is convinced that Doctor Hawking was a fundamentalist Christian because he stated in his book, “If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we should know the mind of God.” To a scientist, such a statement is equivalent to saying “God bless you,” when someone sneezes.
As for the real breaking news, Hawking stated that the gap in our knowledge which was filled with God pertaining to the creation of the universe has been closed. According to Hawking, based on the evidence there is no reason why a deity would be needed to create the universe. He has actually suggested something similar before, but now he has the evidence to back it up.
This means that a god is not needed to fill the role of a creator and toward the end of the year Sam Harris will show the evidence which will close the god gap in morality. As we keep closing these gaps, God is finding a hard time finding things to have done. In other words, Christians are running out of things to give God credit for. Soon, the only thing left for God to claim credit for will be some touchdown or rap award.
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