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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #15 on: September 04, 2010, 04:14:16 pm »
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Note to jordandog: I know on Yahoo they were trying to phrase it like "Hawking changed his views on God".  Uh, no he didn't.  He's been an atheist for years...

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Yes, I noticed that and it's not the first time it's been implied, as I'm sure you know. I think I have gotten to the point where I just 'gloss over' statements to that effect when I see them. ;)

Hawking is brilliant, but that doesn't mean he's right about everything.  Even Oprah is wrong sometimes.

Oprah has been wrong?! LOL ;D
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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #16 on: September 04, 2010, 04:51:01 pm »
I saw this yesterday and was really interested in this I have always thought Hawking was brillant  ;D

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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #17 on: September 04, 2010, 05:00:47 pm »
Why a Christian god creating the universe is mathematically impossible (explicit language, but valid point):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcQTCoY3wYQ
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #18 on: September 04, 2010, 05:39:01 pm »
http://www.goddiscussion.com/25964/professor-says-math-proves-that-god-exists/

Frank Tipler, a former atheist and professor at Tulane University, says that he can prove that God exists by using math. He calls his formula the Cosmological Singularity Principle, which demonstrates that "the universe started over 13 billion years ago at one point, God the Father. Since then it's been expanding with that same point always there. God the Son, far into the future, in about a million, million, trillion years away, the universe will collapse to the one point, God the Holy Spirit. Tipler says the Bible backs up his math in the book of Exodus."

Skeptics say that the math proves something beyond scientific understanding, but to label it as "God" is incorrect.

An atheist in this video says that what does all the proof or evidence mean when you come to the end of equation and God isn't sitting there (paraphrase).

Which just goes to prove, that no matter what evidence is put in front of atheists, there are some who demand that God show up physically and prove who he is. So they basically refuse to believe, in spite of evidence.
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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #19 on: September 04, 2010, 05:44:13 pm »
http://www.goddiscussion.com/25964/professor-says-math-proves-that-god-exists/

Frank Tipler, a former atheist and professor at Tulane University, says that he can prove that God exists by using math. He calls his formula the Cosmological Singularity Principle, which demonstrates that "the universe started over 13 billion years ago at one point, God the Father. Since then it's been expanding with that same point always there. God the Son, far into the future, in about a million, million, trillion years away, the universe will collapse to the one point, God the Holy Spirit. Tipler says the Bible backs up his math in the book of Exodus."

Skeptics say that the math proves something beyond scientific understanding, but to label it as "God" is incorrect.

An atheist in this video says that what does all the proof or evidence mean when you come to the end of equation and God isn't sitting there (paraphrase).

Which just goes to prove, that no matter what evidence is put in front of atheists, there are some who demand that God show up physically and prove who he is. So they basically refuse to believe, in spite of evidence.

This generation seeks for a sign...............

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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #20 on: September 04, 2010, 06:28:01 pm »
Isn't a great part of the bible full of stories about people seeking a sign? Just something to think about.
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Re: God did not create the universe, says Hawking
« Reply #21 on: September 04, 2010, 06:48:01 pm »
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Which just goes to prove, that no matter what evidence is put in front of atheists, there are some who demand that God show up physically and prove who he is. So they basically refuse to believe, in spite of evidence.

I was posting in solidarity to Sherene's posting above:

But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the Prophet Jonas (Jonah):  For as Jonas was three days and three nights in the Whale's belly, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.  Matthew 12: 39-40

In other words, when Jesus arose, after being dead, that was the sign. You either believe it or not.

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