Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe

Daily Telegraph ^ | 02 Sep 2010 | Laura Roberts

[The Comedian]

I understand exactly what he's saying.

The problem is, as always with secularists, he is missing the ability to abstract to a logical conclusion.

Very sad. Especially coming from the best popular human argument against euthanasia and abortion currently alive.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[SunkenCiv]

additional:

• Stephen Hawking Takes on Isaac Newton; Christians Respond
• Stephen Hawking's latest book fails to disprove God
• The Grand Design:
  Hawking on Gravity and Creation, and William Lane Craig on More.
• Is Intelligence By Association Possible?
• Stephen Hawking vs. God
• Professor Stephen Hawking says no God created Universe
• God did not create the universe, says Hawking
• Stephen Hawking Picks Physics Over God for Big Bang

archival:

• Stephen Hawking just doesn't get it
  (asserting the superiority of science over religion)
• Famous British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking says
  Pope told him not to study beginning of universe
• The Big Bang and the Big Question: A Universe without God?
• Hawking: God may play dice after all

[antiRepublicrat]

But thus far you have demonstrated that you are not interested in discussing whether or science can illuminate the issue of whether or not the universe had a beginning, and if so whether or not the beginning was caused.

Science is always a work in progress and doesn't claim to have the ultimate answers. You do claim to have the ultimate answer to these scientific questions, based on a book written by people who thought the Earth is flat.

[tpanther]

Yup...to be so smart, he lacks common sense.

It’s like sayig “we really don’t need to pay so much attention, or ANY attention actually to oxygen” when discussing gas exchange or perfusion.