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1 posted on 09/04/2010 7:57:44 AM PDT by mattstat
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Mr Hawking was cursed at an early age. A notoriously arrogant man he was. He still has not evolved. Little babies have such undeveloped minds.
2 posted on 09/04/2010 8:02:07 AM PDT by allmost
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To: mattstat

Another Internet genius trying to prove a negative through worthless and inaccurate anecdotes...

Derp, derp, derp.

We need more of this. The Internet isn’t noisy enough.

APf


3 posted on 09/04/2010 8:02:53 AM PDT by APFel (Regnum Nostrum Crescit)
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To: mattstat

After he takes his last breath he’ll know the truth.


4 posted on 09/04/2010 8:04:46 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: mattstat

Excellent article. Very well written.


5 posted on 09/04/2010 8:05:04 AM PDT by TheWriterTX (Buy Ammo Often)
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To: mattstat
my money is on God...
9 posted on 09/04/2010 8:29:30 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: mattstat

Stephen Hawking vs. God

I’ve got GOD way in front....Hawking will lose so badly he’ll need a wheel chair...OOPS... Lord I appologize...and be with the starving pygmies...


10 posted on 09/04/2010 8:29:35 AM PDT by jakerobins
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To: mattstat
Excellent article. I watched one of Hawkings programs last night and the thing which struck me most, was how many times "luck" was invoked in his explanation of how the universe and we came about.

Gravity was "luck." The narrow imbalance between matter and anti-matter was "luck." The improbable location of Earth at exactly the right point to allow life to "evolve" was "luck." Etc. etc.

In his effort to explain away the "luck" factor as being proof of God's existence, he comes up with an infinite number of possible universes in which the various lucky occurrences don't happen . . . not exactly sure how that proves God isn't necessary, but it seems to convince him.

Atheism is more reliant on faith than is any of the other world's religions. Millions of "coincidences" must occur against astronomically small odds for the universe to be as it is today. That's a lot of faith in science.

I'll stick with God, thank-you very much.
11 posted on 09/04/2010 8:37:01 AM PDT by Sudetenland (Slow to anger but terrible in vengence...such is the character of the American people.)
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To: mattstat

One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.

The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost.”

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, “Very well, how about this, let’s say we have a man making contest.” To which the scientist replied, “OK, great!”

But God added, “Now, we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”

The scientist said, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God just looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!”


17 posted on 09/04/2010 8:59:10 AM PDT by Til I am the last man standing (It's the internet Senators; We can see what you are doing!)
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To: mattstat

Okay, I must have missed a discovery or two in the last 40 years regarding gravity. I thought gravity came from something within a mass. Does gravity now exist apart from mass? Is gravity floating around space gathering up little particles to fit together? What am I missing. Plain English please. :)


19 posted on 09/04/2010 9:05:14 AM PDT by huldah1776
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To: mattstat

Stephen Hawking vs. God.

Hmm....

GOD.

Next!


22 posted on 09/04/2010 9:15:22 AM PDT by hoagy62 (.)
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To: mattstat

Norm Geisler, I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist.

Great book.

http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Have-Enough-Faith-Atheist/dp/1581345615/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283616944&sr=8-1


26 posted on 09/04/2010 9:24:08 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: mattstat

Matthew 21:18-22

Early in the morning, as he was on his way back to the city, he was hungry. Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, “May you never bear fruit again!” Immediately the tree withered.

When the disciples saw this, they were amazed. “How did the fig tree wither so quickly?” they asked.

Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and it will be done. If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer.”


28 posted on 09/04/2010 9:46:05 AM PDT by Raycpa
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We now understand gravity and various other forces, and they can explain the instantaneous, unforced creation of the universe.

-Why are there these forces rather than nothing?

-Why are these forces the way they are (able to create a universe) rather than some other way?

30 posted on 09/04/2010 10:15:05 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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metaphysical:
"incorporeal; supernatural; having the form of an empirical hypothesis, but in fact immune from empirical testing"

"In matters of religion, the problem of validating metaphysical claims is most readily seen in all of the "proofs" for the existence of God. Like trying to prove the existence of a "soul" or "spirit" in the human, attempts to scientifically prove the existence of God and other nonobjective, nonhuman realities is seemingly impossible. The difficulty arises out of the attempt to scientifically study and objectify something which, by its very nature, cannot become an object of our scientific studies. This reigning belief that everything can be explained scientifically in terms of natural causes - referred to as naturalism - compels many to think that only what is seen or sensed, only what can be hypothesized and tested can be true, and therefore, meaningful to us as humans."
"Many scientists do believe in both science and God, the God of revelation, in a perfectly consistent way" - Feynman.

"You could feel the presence of nineteenth-century museum directors engaged, in their frock coats, in goniometrie and cranilogie, busily collecting and measuring everything, the the pious hope that mere quantification would lead to understanding. - Sagan.
35 posted on 09/05/2010 1:44:55 PM PDT by Milhous (Confusion to our enemies.)
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in the year 2525 duplicates are still gonna ba alive. Additional: some totally irrelevant sidebars:
36 posted on 09/06/2010 6:15:11 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Democratic Underground... matters are worse, as their latest fund drive has come up short...)
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To: mattstat

Stephen Hawking’s Universe Implodes

http://xwalk.ca/y3nf.html

Only the God of the Bible tells the future with accuracy and specificity.


39 posted on 09/18/2010 10:45:31 PM PDT by ROTB (Without a Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia during armed revolt.)
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