What does Stephen hawking think about god?

Stephen Hawking has recently argued that there is 'no place for a creator', that God does not exist. In his quantum cosmology there would be no singularities at which the laws of science broke down and no edge of space-time at which one would have to appeal to God or some new law to set the boundary conditions for space-time . .. The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself.It would neither be created nor destroyed.

It would just BE . .. What place, then, for a creator? Hawking says that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science.

In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary Answer As someone who once corresponded with Stephen Hawking I can perhaps provide a more balanced and informative answer Hawking takes an agnostic position on matters of religion.In other words, he isn't sure. He has repeatedly used the word "God" to illustrate points made in his books and public speeches.

However, his belief in God is more from a deist point of view than Christian Deism simply means the acknowledgement of a 'divine' (or otherwise) force or being that set the universe in motion, then left it to its own devices, rather than intervene through miracles, prayer and so on. However, this does not mean that Hawking is an out-and-out atheist. The last line in "A Brief story Of Time" is famous for saying that, if we could tie together the equations describing the universe, we would "know the mind of God Cynics, and those who second-guess Hawking claim that he included this line simply so the book would sell better.

However, his use of the 'God' metaphor in many of his speeches, collected essays and so on suggests otherwise - that he believes in something... even if it is the God of the Deist, or the laws of Physics.As an example, on page 8 of 'A brief story of Time' (Bantam 1988) he says: One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang.An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

Hawking has stated that he is "not religious in the normal sense" and he believes that "the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws." This alone points clearly to a belief in some sort of God, whether a deist belief or not.

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