Stephen Hawking Says God Not Necessary For Creation

Stephen Hawking, the British physicist and mathematician, says in his new book, The Grand Design,  that God was not needed for the creation of the universe.

“The Grand Design,” which the publishers call Hawking’s first major work in nearly a decade, challenges Isaac Newton’s theory God must have been involved in creation because our solar system couldn’t have come out of chaos simply through nature.

But Hawking says it isn’t that simple. To understand the universe, it’s necessary to know both how and why it behaves the way it does, calling the pursuit “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”

“We shall attempt to answer it in this book,” he wrote. “Unlike the answer given in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,’ ours won’t be simply ’42.'”

Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow say that because there is gravity, the universe can be created 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 … set the Universe going.”

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.