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Stephen Hawking Says Universe Created from Nothing

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the preparing-hell-for-people-who-ask-questions dept.

mr_3ntropy writes "Speaking to a sold out crowd at the Berkeley Physics Oppenheimer Lecture, Hawking said yesterday that he now believes the universe spontaneously popped into existence from nothing. He said more work is needed to prove this but we have time because 'Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end.' There is also a Webcast available (Realplayer or Real Alternative required)."

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  1. Re:Pfft - yeah right. by impleri · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    At the bottom, though, is Siva (or Visnu or Krsna or Durga or Brahman or....).

  2. Re:Try again. by DM9290 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    "No, the religious nut-cases do that. They are the ones you always hear about in the media. You don't hear about the millions of reasonable, open-minded religious people who are capable of realizing that the Bible doesn't actually say how old the earth is and Genesis 1 was meant to be poetic rather than a scientific account of how God created the universe."

    So the Bible is false?

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