Following the media hype surrounding Professor Stephen Hawking’s new book, there seems to be two conclusions emerging:
1) If you want to call the laws of physics God, then go ahead.
2) We are never really going to know why the laws of physics are as they are.
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It seems to me that his old attitude (that religion and science weren't incompatible) was more radical than his new one.
The broad assumption seems to be that it's religion vs. science. Though people of religious persuasion that I know don't seem to think about it that way.
Religion still provides a whole bunch of things that provides people with meaning (a history of art; a moral compass; community; ritual) and science won't dispel that stuff. I guess none of what I'm saying is new, but there it is!
If science does undermine any hope for an afterlife, that's a shame because I was kinda hoping. But, there it is :)
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