The Grand DesignFollow

I could ask the same thing about the political left and science. It seems as though a fair number of people on the left go out of their way to make any scientific discovery into a condemnation of faith and religion. I'm pretty sure that people on the left didn't constantly insist that science disproves the existence of god and/or the value of faith, no one on the right would have a problem with it. But instead what we get is statements of the form: "Look at this science! It proves that you crazy religious people are wrong. Nyah nyah nyah!".

I've pointed this out before. Nothing in Darwin's work, for example, even remotely dismisses the broad aspects of creationism, yet many people equate Darwin and the Theory of Evolution as somehow in opposition with Creationism. At some point, atheists decided that science was a great tool to attack religion with, and they've been doing it ever since. Blaming religions people for responding to such attacks is just icing on the cake.

So God exists just for the hell of it? Boy, I sure am glad millennia of warfare have been waged on a lark.

Sure, as are an infinite number of other things. It's just unreasonable to assume that is the case.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

It is absolutely impossible to create something out of nothing.

I don’t believe in science…I believe in God. Science can’t heal cancer – God can. Sciene can’t heal a marriage – God can. Science can’t make a broken criminal whole again – God can. I used to believe in science, but science has let us down for many millenia. How many times has science said, “oh well, we were wrong…this is how it really is…Oh actually, our calculations were off by seventy-five million microns so the implications are as varied as the universer…yada yada yada…science sure does like to poke its nose in religion, but the contrary is not so. If you scientist really want God out of your labs, then stop talking about Him like you know Him. I’m just saying…

It is very sad to see many of mankinds brightest, most talented minds continue to fall for the same series of lies and deception that has plagued our race since the beginning of time (or should I say when – by chance – nimble atomic particles ran into each other in such a fashion as to start a Big Bang!).

If you throw some bricks and cement together and leave them for a million years will you get a house? NO.

But we should believe that the beautiful complex universe and our planet just the right distance from the sun and with an unusually large moon that contributes to the earths stable spin, otherwise we would wobble like a spinning top. Not to mention the perfect recycling system the earth came together from nothing! Mmmmmm

Perhaps 'Law of Gravity' is Gods middle name?

He's probably the smartest person on the planet,

Hahaha, holy fuck, no. What he is; is famous. Sometimes in science this corresponds with genius, in this case it corresponds with novelty. Without ALS, Hawking is teaching differential equations at East Anglia. He's, *maybe* in the top 5000 physicists working today in terms of contributions to the field. He's an entirely average (considering his education level) mathematician, generally.

I realize it's all magic to you morons, anyway, and that it's impossible for you to tell the difference, but really you feel for the "powerful wizard with the crippled body" archetype? Really? What's next, a blind prophet?

And, equally, a scientific theory that explains a testable phenomenon might imply spontaneous creation.

That said, it is hard to differentiate between smart and hard working and my recollection is that most of his contemporaries did not work so hard.

my favorite antidote about Hawking, which I have no idea if it is true, is that an Oxford, as an undergraduate, he and his classmates were assigned some difficult problems. Most solved 1-2, working together. Hawking was very disappointed that he had only solved 5 working alone.

Yes Dr. Jones... To the Poison you just drank!