News Stephan Hawking Declares There is No God

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  1. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    jibe. per martin.
     
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  2. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Explain.
     
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  3. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    I can get into detail when I get home, but Hawkins didn't talk about nothing but rather a different time. Different time than time as we know it.
     
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  4. uscvball

    uscvball Founding Member

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    Almost 50 pages. Who'da thunk? Well done Bengal.
     
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  5. mancha

    mancha Alabama morghulis

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    These pages can be summed up in The Theory of Everything. Starts today at a theater near you.

    Will the real Stephan Hawking please stand up. Please stand up.

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    mancha, Nov 7, 2014
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  6. Atreus21

    Atreus21 Founding Member

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    I'll see your Stephen Hawking and raise you Max Planck.

    "As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter."

    — Max Planck, Das Wesen der Materie, 1944
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Funny you should mention him. Planck was the father of quantum physics. And no matter what his religious beliefs may have been, there is no God factor in quantum mechanics.
     
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  8. Atreus21

    Atreus21 Founding Member

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    There is no god factor in math, astronomy, or biology either. Don't see your point.
     
    Atreus21, Nov 8, 2014
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Obviously, Planck was not making a scientific remark because God is not a factor in quantum mechanics. The point is that scientists like Hawking and Planck may have religious beliefs or lack of them but they don't make them a part of their science. What was the point of your post?
     
    red55, Nov 9, 2014
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    Don't make them a part of their science? Isn't that exactly what Hawking did?

    The point was to show that great scientists can and do believe in God.
     
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