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Hawking Tackles Creation
Says God not
needed for
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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,
STEPHEN
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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