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Pope Advised Hawking Not to Study Origin of Universe
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.'"
Pope Palpatine will advocate not studying conception...since it is an act of God. Great. Guess my girlfriend won't be putting out.
The Inquisition can't come for Hawking now: he's expecting it!
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The Vatican was unavailable for comment.
Pope, speaking in bad Italian accent: Yeah, you see, it's like this Mr. Hawking... the beginning of everything... that's God's work... he wouldn't be too pleased if you found out too much about what he did... he's very private that way... he tends to get upset easily... and we wouldn't want anything to say, happen to you... you wouldn't want to end up in a wheelchair or nothin'... oh wait...
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You got there before me. Well, Hawking once believed that time would reverse when the universe started contracting towards the big crunch, so this would have been news on the way back down the timeline ;).
Oh no... it's the future.
It's turtles all the way down.
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Agreed The real news is that the Inquisition finally caught up with Galileo. I'll submit the story right away!
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Ah, that is why lots of drops of coffee from my computer screen just magically jumped in my mouth! ;-)
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As far as they're concerned, they're using their God given brain to study how God does His thing.
A biology professor I once met was fond of saying that if you study biology in long enough, you will find not only that God exists, but He has a sense of humor.
I am not your blowing wind, I am the lightning.
What are you talking about? Sir Isaac Newton didn't discover gravity. Al Gore did.
"You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles
You don't have to study very much, just have a good long look at your own reproductive organs. After all, as the joke goes: "God must be a civil engineer, who else but a civil engineer would put a waste water outlet through a recreational facility?".
So, if I read a ten, fifteen, maybe thirty-year-old book, can I submit quotes from it as news, too?
Well, maybe Hawking himself submitted this, and it just took him this long to... type... it... with... his... little... clicker... thing...
I for one, wholeheartedly embrace the concept of design...
The problem is he built the recreational facility on the existing waste water plants property, so it sounds like he's a speculation developer rather than an engineer. "Hell, this place will be so much fun they will come no matter how bad it smells."
good idea, nobody will expect that
Kind of like "Moose", which stems from Canadian Latin ... ;-)
Yeah, but please BUY his book, don't rip-off God's royalties. Otherwise he might not be discouraged to create other universes.
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With the first link, the chain is forged.
well, we certainly didn't expect that either...
First you crawl back up into your mother then are sucked out of there by your dad. Wonderfull. I hope they have shrinks in the pre-life.
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....was trialled on heresy by Roman Inquisition
Cue a bunch of guys in togas bursting into the room.
"Hey, I expected the Spanish Inquisition!"
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Unknown
So in other words, you're saying that God only had one publication (the Bible), which included no citations of prior work and would not hold up under peer review.
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