No need for god in creating the universe!

[sherminator]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11161493


One of he smartest men on the planet thinks so!!!

[maggieb66]

This is purely fiction and just a fun question but what would happen to Stephen Hawkings if someone took him to one of these revivals and he was healed, what would he do then. I've never been to one and never met anyone whos been healed, but have heard that it's happened.

[squarebear]

Well they can't all be right.
So which religion is the correct one? Imagine the shock on all the Christians' faces when they get to Heaven and St Peter says, no it was the Hindus who were correct.

What tosh!

[jackthehat]

Is that what passes for an apology these days, Agnez ?

[Ankou]

i would rather someone didn't try to recreate it

another big bang could cause all sorts of mess and i would have to miss the pub quiz on wednesday.

[jno]

in the resultant alternative universe you might actually win it, Ankou. Isn't there a theory that the universe will contract again and need another big bang to start over?

[jackthehat]

Hopefully the LHC will start to provide more answers..........

[Ankou]

jno, i always aim for the wooden spoon, that way i am never disappointed and always end up with what i aim for.

and anyway, its not any old 'just another big bang' it would be the second coming.

[squarebear]

If so can you please bring me one person on this planet that can replicate this magic even on a nanoscale?

David Copperfield :-)

[squarebear]

Yes I'm still here. I don't know anyone who can create thunder either but I'm sure it's nature rather than an omnipotent being.

[jno]

well, exactly. I've definitely heard of the theory of a serial universe, but I don't have the physics to know if it's feasible; perhaps other ABers can confirm or deny.

I'm also unclear if Hawking has said God didn't do the job, or if it was simply not necessary to attribute it to him, which isn't quite the same thing. (Jeremy Kyle isn't necessary, but he exists none the less.)

[jackthehat]

Does God work in that particular lab ?

[jno]

omnipresent, jack

[Old_Geezer]

So what causes Spontaneous Creation ? Why is there such a thing as maths ?
I think it makes little benefit to conclude that just because one uncovers a "big bang" may create itself, that, that answers the big questions. It just pushes them back 1 stage at best.

[Ankou]

but that one stage is millions of years, so its not a short step.

[jomifl]

big bang/god/big bang/god/big bang/ god/ big chicken/ god/chicken/ god /chicken/egg
quite simple really, so obvious,what next?

[jomifl]

we have a fairly good understanding of our local bit of the universe and the conditions that apply within it. The further away in distance and time you go the more strange everything seems to get. Get away far enough and it will be very strange indeed.Nobody knows what occurrs in intense gravitational and magnetic fields or in plasmas hot beyond imagining. We can only conjecture and guess. Why does the universe need a beginning,If there was a big bang there was probably no time before it as time is a partner of space, If there was no space there was no time therefore the universe always existed 'since the beginning of time' so god must have come later :-)
who knows or ever can?