From: VIRGIL@VIRGIL.com   
      
   In article ,   
    BREAKING NEWS  wrote:   
      
   > Let's put it this way . . .   
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   > If Steve ISN'T brain dead,   
      
   Ed Conrad is!   
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   > Read a few tidbits from his interview with the Spanish   
   > magazine El Mundo   
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   >  he emphatically stated that THERE IS NO GOD   
   > because science offers a "more convincing explanation"   
   > for the origin of the universe.   
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   > He also said that the so-called miracles   
   > of religion "aren't compatible" with scientific fact.   
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   > "Before we understood science, it was natural to believe   
   > that God created the universe," said Hawking, a theoretical   
   > scientist, cosmologist and astrophysicist whose I.Q. has   
   > been reported to be 190   
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   > "But now science offers a more convincing explanation,"   
   > he continued. "What I meant by 'We would know the mind   
   > of God' is we would know everything that God would know   
   > IF there was a God -- but there isn't. I'm an atheist."   
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   > Hawking's remarks came in response to a question from   
   > El Mundo who asked him if he had any religious leanings.   
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   > The "mind of God" reference was Hawking's effort to clarify   
   > a passage in his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," in   
   > which he wrote that scientists would "know the mind of God"   
   > if a unifying set of scientific principles -- known   
   > colloquially as The Theory of Everything -- were discovered.   
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   > It wasn't the first time Hawking has spoken about his   
   > totally negative opinion of religious beliefs.   
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   > In 2011, he told The Guardian newspaper that he didn't   
   > believe in a heaven or an afterlife, calling it "a fairy   
   > tale for people afraid of the dark."   
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   > In any event, a few years ago, Professor Hawking told the   
   > BBC that he believes "the universe is governed by the laws   
   > of science."   
      
   So do most scientists and at least a moiety of Christians   
   --   
   Virgil   
   "Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens." (Schiller)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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