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Originally Posted by elchivito
I read a different article about this which was titled something like "Hawking changes position on God"....while I've not followed his writings extensively, the article didn't really give justification for any change in his position. Did he at some point in the past posit an intelligent creator in his theories?
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AFAIK He has never changed his position on God--Hawking has deliberately avoided public discourse on religion in the past. Rather, he met with the Pope JPII at one point to discuss whether or not his studies were congruent with those in the bible after he began getting a ton of press. The result was that all the way back until the Big Bang, the Bible could be
interpreted as similar to science. I believe what the article implies is that he has gone beyond the big bang and therefore has reached the boundaries of Christian scripture. When you think about it, they are just two competing theories, Hawking merely has known physics and mathematics on his side.