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So an\u00a0interview<\/a> with the physicist has surfaced in which he illustrates why I never had the faith to be an atheist.\u00a0 It demonstrates why people who are experts in one field are not always well versed in others. Of course he knows of no such thing.\u00a0 Just like we no of no origins of religion.\u00a0 Oh there are theories.\u00a0 There are theories based on theories based on theories based on beliefs.\u00a0 But no actual evidence.\u00a0 What evidence we have is long after religious thought is in play.\u00a0 What we make of it is, again, theory based on belief.\u00a0 We do have his famous \u2018we don\u2019t need God, we have gravity\u2019 statement, which had philosophers and theologians blowing beer out of their noses in laughter.\u00a0 It reminds me of Richard Dawkins.\u00a0 Somewhere he said something about how if God exists, He would be bigger than any theologian ever knew.\u00a0 A silly and meaningless statement, especially when just about every major religion and its thinkers admit there is more to God than we will ever know!\u00a0 The irony is just too much fun. <\/p>\n

As for science works, sure it does.\u00a0 In medicine, in mechanics, in industry, in carbon emissions, in nuclear weapons, in gas chambers.\u00a0 That\u2019s the problem with science.\u00a0 It only asks what is.\u00a0 It has no capacity for asking what we should do about it.\u00a0 As the wise man once said, a society that lives in the shadow of the mushroom cloud, yet continues to put unchecked faith in science, is a culture that deserves to be laughed at by your average Medieval peasant. <\/p>\n

Of course all of this is irrelevant.\u00a0 Hawking is one of them science types, that must mean he\u2019s super smart about everything.\u00a0 At least in the eyes of the media.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"