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Hawking Tackles Creation
Says God not
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(AP) — Did creation need a
creator?
British physicist and m athem a
tician Stephen H aw king says no,
arguing in his new book that there
need not be a God behind the
creation o f the universe.
The concept is explored in "The
Grand Design." The book, w rit
ten with fellow physicist Leonard
M lodinow, is scheduled to be pub
lished by Bantam Press on T hurs
day.
"The G rand Design," which
the publishers call H aw king's first
m ajor work in nearly a decade,
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HAWKING
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challenges Isaac N ew ton's theory
God must have been involved in
creation because our solar sys
tem couldn't have com e out of
chaos sim ply through nature.
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But Hawking says it isn't that
simple. To understand the uni
verse, it's necessary to know both
how and why it behaves the way
it does, calling the pursuit "the
Ultim ate Q uestion o f Life, the
Universe, and Everything."
H aw king, w ho is renow ned
for his work on black holes, said
the 1992 discovery .o f another
planet orbiting a star other than
the sun m akes "the coincidences
o f our planetary conditions ... far
less rem arkable and far less com
pelling as evidence that the Earth
was carefully designed ju st to
please us hum an beings."
In his best-selling 1988 book
"A B rief History o f Time," H aw k
ing appeared to accept the possi
bility o f a creator, saying the dis
c o v ery o f a co m p lete th eo ry
would "be the ultim ate trium ph o f
hum an reason — for then we
should know the mind o f God."
But "The G rand Design" seems
to step away from that, saying
physics can explain things w ith
out the need for a "benevolent
creator who made the Universe
for our benefit."
"Because there is a law such as
gravity, the Universe can and will
create itself from nothing," the
excerpt says. "Spontaneous cre
ation is the reason there is som e
thing rather than nothing, why
the Universe exists, why we ex
ist. It is not necessary to invoke
God t o ... set the Universe going."
Hawking retired last year as the
Lucasian C hair o f M athem atics at
C am bridge U niversity after 30
years in the position. The position
was once held by Newton.
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