There he goes again....

Well, he's at it again! First it was aliens, then "escape for your life" and now this:

(I can't help adding my thoughts after you read his.)

2 September 2010 Last updatated 18:25 ETStephen Hawking: God did not create the Universe

There is no place for God in theories on the creation of the Universe, Professor Stephen Hawking has said.

He had previously argued belief in a creator was not incompatible with science but in a new book, he concludes the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.

The Grand Design, part serialised in the Times, says there is no need to invoke God to set the Universe going.

"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something," he concluded.

'Planetary conditions'

In his new book, an extract of which appears in the Times, Britain's most famous physicist sets out to contest Sir Isaac Newton's belief that the universe must have been designed by God as it could not have sprung out of chaos.

Citing the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than our Sun, he said: "That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions - the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass - far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings."

He adds: "Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

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Ok, my turn. Obviously Stephen Hawking is a very learned man. But education does not give wisdom. Brilliance does not generate simple common sense. Stephen said, "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something." My response- How does he know that? With a figurative wave of the hand he dismisses God and claims that an intricate and amazing creation "just happened." There is too much information that he must overlook to make the statement he makes and yet he does. I'm beginning to wonder if we shouldn't dismiss Stephen's thoughts entirely, "hide from the aliens, flee to the planets, the universe just happened." When do we honestly ask a really important question, "How does he know that?" It's time to smile and dismiss him as you would the prophet of doom on the corner proclaiming the end of the world. There's far too much evidence that declares there is a creator to turn our backs and pretend he isn't there.