Heaven is a fairy tale, says physicist Hawking

Discussion in 'Religion and Spirituality' started by Debaser82, May 16, 2011.

  1. fanews

    fanews

    Tell that fucking handicapped, diseased Stephen Hawking to watch his ass for pissing of the Gods or he could be killed by the Gods.


     
    #51     May 16, 2011
  2. pspr

    pspr

    What they've already taken from him is much worse than death. I guess they could still take away his ability for in-depth thought, though.
     
    #52     May 16, 2011
  3. dcvtss

    dcvtss

    Have you read Hawking's book? It's premise is a direct argument against our universe being "special" based on recent developments in theoretical physics, more recent than many of these quotes.

    How can we understand the world in which we find ourselves? Over twenty years ago I wrote A Brief History of Time, to try to explain where the universe came from, and where it is going. But that book left some important questions unanswered. Why is there a universe--why is there something rather than nothing? Why do we exist? Why are the laws of nature what they are? Did the universe need a designer and creator?

    It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal. And by the time I had begun writing A Brief History of Time, there were still several key advances that had not yet been made that would prevent us from fulfilling Einstein’s dream. But in recent years the development of M-theory, the top-down approach to cosmology, and new observations such as those made by satellites like NASA’s COBE and WMAP, have brought us closer than ever to that single theory, and to being able to answer those deepest of questions. And so Leonard Mlodinow and I set out to write a sequel to A Brief History of Time to attempt to answer the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The result is The Grand Design, the product of our four-year effort.

    In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. We question the conventional concept of reality, posing instead a "model-dependent" theory of reality. We discuss how the laws of our particular universe are extraordinarily finely tuned so as to allow for our existence, and show why quantum theory predicts the multiverse--the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature. And we assess M-Theory, an explanation of the laws governing the multiverse, and the only viable candidate for a complete "theory of everything." As we promise in our opening chapter, unlike the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life given in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the answer we provide in The Grand Design is not, simply, "42."
     
    #53     May 17, 2011
  4. maxpi

    maxpi

    that would be a form of "appeal to experts", an invalid philosophical thingy...
     
    #54     May 17, 2011
  5. Yes a computer can break down, but if you take precautions before the computer dies, the information that was on the computer will still be there in the "clouds" (cloud computing for those that didnt get that)

    You dont need the bible to get evidence of God. The evidence is all around you. Creation is evidence of a creator. Its hard to understand why so many are blind to that fact. How did an appleseed get programmed that when its in the ground and water gets to it, it will sprout and search for the light so it can grow? And when it grows, how does it know to use its energy to get out of the ground to find the light to get more energy? How did the leaves figure out how to harvest energy from the sun? and how do the seeds in the apples that are mostly water know not to grow while they are in the fruit? This is just one tiny example of the evidence that everything was created.
     
    #55     May 17, 2011
  6. stu

    stu

    Tomato sauce is evidence of a speghetti monster
     
    #56     May 17, 2011
  7. <iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/xjBIsp8mS-c" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #57     May 17, 2011

  8. I know I just took this discussion to another level, but here you go.

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    #58     May 17, 2011
  9. No God? Maybe not.......but.........
    <iframe width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/bXQAgzfwuNQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
     
    #59     May 17, 2011
  10. jems evidence boiled down. it sounds complicated so that means it had to be biblegod who created the world.
    a thinking person without a need to believe could come up with many other possibilities.
     
    #60     May 17, 2011