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Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chewbacca-defense dept.

BlueCup submits a link to an Associated Press article running in the Northwest Florida Daily News which begins "Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God. The British author, who wrote the best-seller 'A Brief History of Time,' said that the pope made the comments at a cosmology conference at the Vatican." According to the article, "The scientist then joked during a lecture in Hong Kong, 'I was glad he didn't realize I had presented a paper at the conference suggesting how the universe began. I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition like Galileo.'"

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  1. Re:Flawed Logic by RsG · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because then the people who make a living telling people what God(TM) is will be out of a job?

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  2. Re:It's just propaganda by OwnedByTwoCats · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    So what exactly explains the people who insist on creationism, denying every shred of evidence and fact that supports evolution?
    Some people crave certainty, and latch onto words of leaders who claim to speak simple, absolute truth.
    Are they just pulling their 6 day creation story out of thin air?
    They have chosen to follow leaders who are themselves either ignorant fools, spouting what they do not understand, or liars.

    Not at all dissimilar to the Republican War on Science. They have chosen to embrace those who make their livlihood causing global warming, so they naturally believe the energy industry think-tanks who say that global warming has nothing to do with the CO2 that we're putting into the atmosphere. It's all a coincidence. You can't believe those scientists; here, believe our scientists instead. Because we make campaign contributions.