According to the famed British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, God is not a necessary condition for the creation of the universe. According to Hawking, the “Big Bang,” (creation), was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.
The claim is a direct challenge to traditional religious beliefs.
Hawking draws his conclusion in his latest book, "The Grand Design," set to go on sale next week. The effort has already drawn attention to the endless and inevitable debate between science and religion.
"The universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to set the universe going,"
Hawking reiterates what many take as a given: God no longer has a place in scientific theories of any kind, including those on the creation of the Universe.
Hawking argues "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Physics was the reason for the Big Bang, not God.
Hawking's book, co-written by American physicist Leonard Mlodinow, is meant to contest Sir Isaac Newton's belief that the universe must have been designed by God as it could not have been created out of chaos.
Hawking recently retired from his professorship at Cambridge University that was once held by Sir Isaac Newton.
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