Somebody's Going To Hell! Stephen Hawking: "God Not Necessary For Universe To Exist"
Seen here trying to bite his tongue but catching his lip instead, Stephen Hawking claims there's no need for a God in order for the universe to exist. *Preparing napsack and evacuation route for flame war*
Now, in his upcoming book, according to an excerpt of the introduction released by the London Times which isn't getting any traffic from this because of their pay wall), Hawking declares that the Big Bang can be explained without God.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," Hawking and his co-author, Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow, write in "The Grand Design," which is due to be issued next week. "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 [British way of saying light the fuse] and set the universe going."
Listen: I'm not even gonna pretend to be smart (because I'm not), but Stephen Hawking did give us E=Mc2, amirite? No? That was Einstein? Oh. Well then maybe he's just bitter at God for wheelchairing him.
Bad News, Religious People: Stephen Hawking Says God Didn't Create the Universe [nymag]
Thanks to lil co., who a universe without isn't worth living in.
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