Stephen Hawking - Making Something out of Nothing

 Stephen Hawking is his latest book "The Grand Design" made a statement that God is not necessary for creation. He didn't say that there is no God. The following article states: "Mind you, he’s not saying that God doesn’t exist. He’s merely reiterating what Scriptures have said right along – that what we humans perceive as “something” can and has developed from what we humans perceive as “nothing.”". There's also a quote from Deepak Chopra with his explanation
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Stephen Hawking: Making something out of nothing
Albany Interfaith Spirituality | Examiner.com:  September 12th, 2010 8:11 am ET

Stephen Hawking is not only a master physicist, he’s also a master publicist.

The media has been recently abuzz with Hawking’s latest and greatest shocker – his assertion that God is not necessary for the creation of this, or any other known universe. Mind you, he’s not saying that God doesn’t exist. He’s merely reiterating what Scriptures have said right along – that what we humans perceive as “something” can and has developed from what we humans perceive as “nothing.”

So we’re right back to wondering exactly how that can happen. Hawking boils it down to M Theory, or what he proclaims to be The Theory of Everything. The M, which used to stand for “membrane” until hotly disputed, is now etymologically up for grabs (ironically, some link it to “miracle”). Hawking contends that - since the laws of gravity exist, all else mathematically follows. And why do these laws of gravity exist? Who knows…

The concept of “nothing” is equally elusive. We all learned in grade school that zero is not necessarily nothing. It’s a place holder. When partnered with other digits, it multiplies and divides. When standing alone, it signifies the absence of all that we commonly perceive to exist. In order words, it can signify “no thing” – but the absence of “things” is not, in and of itself, a complete void.

Deepak Chopra addresses this crucial point in his analysis of Hawking’s (and coauthor Leonard Mlodinow’s) latest book, The Grand Design. In a September 8, 2010 Huffington Post article, Chopra and coauthor Menas Kafatos explain: … Hawking and Mlodinow are leading us on a journey to the very edge of ‘nothing,’ the underlying source of all space, time, matter, and energy, and the closer they get, the more their findings lend no contradiction to a universal presence, often referred to as God. The ultimate basis of material existence which physicists dub as this nothingness is the ground zero of creation. It is imbued with the pure order that generates mathematics; it gives rise to the laws of nature that govern and balance the universe; and it
remains mysteriously above its own creation, monitoring quantum interactions beyond the speed of light.

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