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Originally Posted by Bubblehead1980
This is news? Been obvious for a long time that "god" did not create the universe, durrrr.
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Obvious how?
Current science on this issue does not agree with your conclusion one bit. While it does agree that any deity religion believes created the universe is HIGHLY unlikely, the concept of a creator is not outside the realm of science - in fact, we believe that whole universes could quite possibly be created in a laboratory, ultimately making said creators "gods".
Furthermore, multi-dimensional M-Theory suggests that an infinite number of universes are possible. This combined with the "Many Worlds" interpretation of wave-function collapse (the Copenhagen interpretion - the two most widely accepted views of quantum probability {wave function}) means that, due to an infinite number of universes being likely, an infinite number of them result from creators - I.E., "Gods".
Now I do not believe in a deity. However, I choose to respect those that do, and I dislike whenever one tries to belittle that belief from behind a faux scientific veil. In no way is what you're claiming "obvious" - science has no real strong fundamental answer to the question of Genesis - what resulted in the Big Bang. (In fact, the idea of a Big Bang was repulsive to Albert Einstein due to it's suggestion that a deity may actually exist - so much so that he contrived what was called the "Cosmological Constant" in order to support a steady-state universe.)
In any case, what you claim is obvious is not quite so, and that's not what I believe Hawking was attempting to express.