{"id":1721,"date":"2010-09-03T08:09:36","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2010-09-03T08:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T13:09:36","slug":"breaking-news-stephen-hawking-doesn%e2%80%99t-believe-in-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1721","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Stephen Hawking Doesn\u2019t Believe in God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though physicist <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Stephen W. Hawking\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hawking.org.uk\/\">Stephen Hawking<\/a> has been an atheist for quite some time, this seemed to be breaking news yesterday. Don\u2019t get me wrong, I think Hawking did make breaking news yesterday, but it wasn\u2019t his lack of belief in a deity.<\/p>\n<p>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, \u201cThere 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, for some strange reason, the media is convinced that Doctor Hawking was a fundamentalist Christian because he stated in his book, \u201cIf we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason &#8212; for then we should know the mind of God.\u201d To a scientist, such a statement is equivalent to saying \u201cGod bless you,\u201d when someone sneezes.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This means that a god is not needed to fill the role of a creator and toward the end of the year <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Sam Harris (author)\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.samharris.org\">Sam Harris<\/a> 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.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Button BEGIN --><br \/>\n<a onclick=\"return addthis_sendto()\" onmouseover=\"return addthis_open(this, '', '[URL]', '[TITLE]')\" onmouseout=\"addthis_close()\" href=\"http:\/\/www.addthis.com\/bookmark.php?v=250&amp;pub=dangeroustalk\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/static\/btn\/lg-share-en.gif\" alt=\"Bookmark and Share\" width=\"125\" height=\"16\" \/><\/a><script src=\"http:\/\/s7.addthis.com\/js\/250\/addthis_widget.js?pub=dangeroustalk\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- AddThis Button END --><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles by Zemanta<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/news\/3122870\/Prof-Stephen-Hawking-God-didnt-create-universe.html?OTC-RSS&amp;ATTR=News\">Hawking: God didn&#8217;t create universe<\/a> (thesun.co.uk)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/09\/02\/stephen-hawking-god-not-n_n_703179.html\">Stephen Hawking: God NOT Needed For Creation<\/a> (huffingtonpost.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2010\/09\/02\/stephen-hawking-picks-physics-god-big-bang\/\">Hawking Picks Physics Over God in Big Bang<\/a> (foxnews.com)<\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/r.zemanta.com\/?u=http%3A\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2010\/sep\/02\/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator&amp;a=23679250&amp;rid=b0c0c7ec-2c14-4a43-9d2d-85499896b540&amp;e=1ee773360380d697de34538607c2cf8d\">Stephen Hawking says universe not created by God<\/a> (guardian.co.uk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=b0c0c7ec-2c14-4a43-9d2d-85499896b540\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><script src=\"http:\/\/static.zemanta.com\/readside\/loader.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=1721\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 317364;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though physicist Stephen Hawking has been an atheist for quite some time, this seemed to be breaking news yesterday. 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