Willowtree, in another thread:
They have Stephen Hawking type of theories = crank artist cranking out the crank while never supplying any evidence.
Why is Hawking a theorist ?
Because he has given up on evidence because it leads to God.
Me:
Not to continue this off-topic diversion, but Stephen Hawking believes in God. He's famous for saying that the goal of his work is to "know the mind of God." Why would he be interested in the mind of something he doesn't believe in?
WT:
Hawking is an atheist.
He only uses God as a concept, just like Nazi's did to justify their use of Darwin's theory to conduct ghoulish experiments on Jews.
Hawking thinks that when he figures it all out everyone will come to him for the answers - hence his definition of God.
From
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In a 1989 review of A Brief History, Evangelist Hugh Ross says that Hawking "emphatically rejects the label 'atheist.' He comes closer, perhaps, to fitting the description of a deist."
At a physicist's conference Hawking was attending after his book A Brief History of Time was published, a reporter approached him to ask if he did in fact believe in God, given the "mind of God" reference near the end of the book. Hawking responded quickly (suggesting his answer was pre-prepared) "I do not believe in a personal God."
So, he's a deist, not an atheist. Even the Celebrity Atheist List lists him neither as agnostic or atheist but as an ambiguous case. At the very least, there is absolutely no reason why WT would be able to conclude that SH is an atheist, except for WT's delusion that everybody that doesn't believe exactly like him is an atheist.
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