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Universe is self-created: Hawking
UK scientist writes in new book that "it is not necessary to invoke God to ...
get the Universe going".
Last Modified: 02 Sep 2010 18:24
Stephen Hawking's new book The Grand Design argues that God had nothing
to do with the "Big Bang" [EPA]
God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable
consequence of the laws of physics, Britain's award-winning physicist has said.
In his new book, The Grand Design, to be released this month, Stepehn Hawking
argues that "because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will
create itself from nothing".
The book, written with Leonard Mlodinow, a US physicist, is to be published on
September 9.
In an extract published in the British newspaper The Times on Thursday, Hawking
says that spontaneous creation is the reason there is something - as opposed to
nothing, and that unravelling a complex series of theories will explain the
universe.
Hawking reportedly argues "it is not necessary to invoke God to ... get the
Universe going".
In his previous book, A Brief History of Time, Hawking had appeared to accept
the possibility of a creator, saying the discovery of a complete theory would
allow humans to "know the mind of God".
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