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Originally Posted by troutman
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary. [Stephen W. Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989]
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Do you have a link to that article? I'd be interested in reading it in its full context.
As for the stuff from A Brief History of Time that I'm referring to, I wish I had my copy of the book so I could take a look at those passages again. There's excerpts with varying interpretations on the internet, but I'd like to reread several pages.
This is too deep for a game day anyway though. I'm neither a christian nor an atheist, so it's pretty much just whizzing in the wind for me to get into these debates.