Hold the front page: the big bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics. Or indeed, as the front page of the London Times put it today: "Hawking: God did not create universe".
Media furore over Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design, has made it the biggest science news story of the day. But it's not like Hawking has suddenly given up a religious belief – let alone proved that God doesn't exist.
Hawking's position on religion has remained unchanged since he wrote his bestseller, A Brief History of Time. At the end of that book he famously used God as a metaphor for the laws of nature: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of reason – for then we should know the mind of God."
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"Hawking is mistaken IF my future horizon hologram computer idea turns out to be correct. How can we decide? Well one thing is that it explains the small dark energy density ~ (area of future horizon)^-1 with a conscious mind on the horizon. We are images projected back from the future horizon. This is a really crazy idea to be sure. I don't really quite believe it myself. Is it crazy enough to be true?" -- Jack Sarfatti