“Hawking DENIES there is a GOD ?????”
Well, if this isn’t a denial, I don’t know what is:
“Some would claim the answer to these questions is that there is a God who chose to create the universe that way. It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God. In this view it is accepted that some entity exists that needs no creator, and that entity is called God. This is known as the first-cause argument for the existence of God. We claim, however, that it is possible to answer these questions purely within the realm of science, and without invoking any divine beings.”
Dr. Hawking also stated:
“As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing,” Hawking and Mlodinow explain.”
You see, UCANSEE2, Dr. Hawking clearly states his belief concerning the question of, “Does God exist?”
Hawking's dealing with his God is between him and his God. At the very core of the covenant is the truth that God always welcomes back those who he feels have at sometime defied his wishes, in short, we mere humans can't help but question. God knows this. It is for each of us to decide, and Hawking and his awesome brain is for him and his God to decide, sorry. Hawking's affliction for me tells me that he deals with God on a much more questioning level than most; he has been dealt such a blow. I think for such a crippled man to question God is normal, he is after all one of us, mere, mortals, and his human bondage is the proof.