In "The Brief History Of Time" Stephen Hawking said: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God."
But as you might be aware yet till date the "complete theory" or "the Universal Theory" or "Theory of Everything" is elusive....that Stephen Hawking was talking about to in "The Brief History of Time".
And still... "Dark Energy" or "Dark Matter" are called so because the scientific community does not know what it is and how it can be explained.
But according to the excerpts released from his new book, "The Grand Design", Stephen Hawking says, "....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."
These excerpts have triggered so much heated debate between the scientific & religious community now and among the people who are not sure whether they are one side or the other, that the chatter about this excerpt from his new book has become the trending topic in Twitter.
I have high regards for Stephen Hawking. And I think, everyone is jumping guns to conclude that "there is no GOD" or "Stephen Hawking is wrong". While, I don't want to jump to conclusions, I can guess what Stephen Hawking would have meant. He probably just says that we (humans) know a lot now than before that we can now explain the beginning & the evolution of the Universe with the laws of physics & the theories that we know as of today. I don't think he says "there is no GOD".
Let's see how far this debate goes. Or will this debate continue for generations to come?
