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Tag Archives: Stephen Hawking
Neutrino Speed-of-Light Watch: Stephen Hawking Refuses to Comment Yet
Concerning the Italian researchers’ discovery that neutrinos may be exceeding the speed of light, this is at Reuters today: “It is premature to comment on this,” Professor Stephen Hawking, the world’s most well-known physicist, told Reuters. “Further experiments and clarifications … Continue reading
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Tagged albert einstein, black holes, einstein, holographic universe, physics, speed of light, Stephen Hawking
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Blogging Stephen Hawking’s “Did God Create the Universe?” (Discovery Channel Special)
Stephen Hawking’s Discovery Channel presentation, Did God Create the Universe?, premiered on American television last night, and I took notes. The production values were high and the content was interesting. The program consisted of six segments of about 8-10 minutes each, divided by … Continue reading
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Tagged apologetics, Aristarchos, atheism, atheist, Christianity, God, Jesus, philosophy, physics, religion, Stephen Hawking
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Intelligent Design v. The Multiverse Hypothesis: Astronomer John Gribbin Cleverly Splits the Difference Between Them
At the UK’s Telegraph, astronomer John Gribbin puts an intelligent design twist on the multiverse hypothesis: he writes that it’s possible—indeed, plausible—that “a very advanced civilisation”, knowing how to birth new universes via the creation of black holes, designed our universe with life-friendly … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, evolution, Genesis, intelligent design, john gribbin, multiverse hypothesis, Stephen Hawking, the big bang
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Atheist universes without end: Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s ironically titled new book, “The Grand Design”
In a recent Washington Post review of Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow’s new book, The Grand Design (Bantam 2010), physicist James Trefil summarizes how the authors answer this question: Where did our lawful universe come from?: Our current best description of the physics … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, chance, contingency, existentialism, Genesis, God, Stephen Hawking, the big bang, the multiverse
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Paul Davies Says Stephen Hawking’s New Book Doesn’t Quite Get Rid of God Completely
Physicist Paul Davies, reviewing, for the Guardian, Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design (Bantam 2010), says this: The laws of physics can explain, he says, how a universe of space, time and matter could emerge spontaneously, without the need … Continue reading
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Tagged agnosticism, atheism, cosmology, creation, evolution, Genesis, God, multiverse hypothesis, origins, paul davies, physics, Stephen Hawking
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On science v. religion, Stephen Hawking nails it
In a recent Diane Sawyer interview, Stephen Hawking looks at the state of play between religion and science and sees checkmate in religion’s future: There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, agnosticism, apologetics, atheism, atheist, God, Jesus, Mohammad, philosophy, religion, science, Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking: Another Frickin’ Atheist Who Doesn’t Believe in UFOs!
Stephen Hawking thinks that the universe made itself from nothing and that there are no intelligent civilizations within several hundred light years of our own. In short, Hawking basically shoots down, in ten minutes, two recent speculative obsessions of this … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, aliens, atheism, atheist, civilization, God, milky way, philosophy, physics, science, Stephen Hawking, UFOs
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Big Bangs Before The Big Bang?: Testing the Multiverse Hypothesis
Over at Physorg.com, a science news website, there is an article on how scientists are trying to bring pre-Big Bang speculation into the realm of the empirical. For example, one of the theories that has been bandied about by scientists is … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, Big Bang, creationism, evolution, Mama Jane, philosophy, physics, Sarah Palin, science, Stephen Hawking, witches
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Prometheus Unbound 