Stephen Hawking denies god

[cleanhippie]

[frogmarch]

1. Oh, good one!

Yep, that's about the size of it.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. the creator of the universe is only capable of very small ambiguous and unverifiable miracles

it is odd. Perhaps the act of creation diminished His Magnificence so much that, over time, His powers just got smaller and smaller and smaller.

[Curmudgeoness]

3. His miracle power has diminished

with mankind's ability to understand more about how things work. At one time, humans were terrified by an eclipse, believed that virgins thrown into volcanoes would keep the volcano from erupting, the sun and the moon were in a perpetual battle to rule the sky, and white men arriving in ships were gods. It was pretty easy back then to convince them that a magic trick was a miracle.

Or maybe I am just jaded.

[NeoGreen]

5. Yes, and we can even map the decline graphically...

...over time, like this

[Curmudgeoness]

6. .......................

Checkmate.

[NeoGreen]

7. However, even at the height of "his" power...

...he has never demonstrated the ability to heal an amputee.

Kind of like a blind spot.

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

[Warren Stupidity]

8. You sneer at "appearing on toast" - but it is only recently that humans have been able to

replicate this feat. The Big Guy is now reduced to "appearing in films acted by Morgan Freeman". You try to do that.

[NeoGreen]

9. I will decline such a gross display of my...

...awesomeness.

You will have to believe I can such things based on your faithyness.

[mr blur]

4. OK, check THIS out!:

For lovers of both modern scientific thought and Gangsta culture, Nerdcore hip hop artist theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking rapping under the name MC Hawking.

The lyrics display insight into many aspects of current scientific thought, Newton's laws of motion ("All My Shootings Be Drivebys&quot , Einstein's theory of relativity ("E=MC Hawking&quot , the Big Bang ("The Big Bizang&quot , Thermodynamics ("Entropy&quot , and quantum physics subjects such as Schrödinger's cat and the wave function collapse ("Rock Out With Your Hawk Out&quot .
The creation evolution controversy is also mentioned in "Fuck the Creationists" and "Entropy".

Here's "Fuck the Creationists":

More on the YouTube page (they're all good)

(NB - Professor Hawking is aware of MC Hawking and said he was "flattered&quot

[amuse bouche]

10. Sad and true

Why would anyone worship such a foul deity?

It seems so cowardly