Stephen Hawking is one of the world’s most well-known scientists. His contributions to the field of astrophysics on subjects such as black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity have been decisive in this field of knowledge of humanity.
In addition to being a famous theoretical physicist, Hawking was also the author of the following books: best sellers Like ‘A Brief History of Time’ and ‘The Theory of Everything’ in 1988.
The physicist has talked about the existence of God in his writings and various interviews and has made it clear that he does not believe in his existence.
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“There is no God. No one rules the universe,” he wrote in his last book, titled ‘Short Answers to the Big Questions’, published in October 2018, months after his death.
The text, which aims to compile answers to the most frequently asked questions during Hawking’s time on Earth, was completed by his family and other people close to the scientist’s mind.
And the part referring to the existence or belief in God was one of the most repeated, so it could not be missing from his final work.
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Hawking devoted himself to science throughout his life. The Big Bang theory and the theory of everything, With this he tried to explain the origin of the universe.
Although both were quite complex, they led him to the conclusion that, as he wrote in his 2010 book ‘The Grand Design’, “there is no need to pray to God to light the fuse and start the Universe”.
In the same year, he said in an interview with the British newspaper The Guardian, as reported by the BBC, “The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for God.”
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“Since there is a law like gravity, the Universe could and was created from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, the reason why the Universe exists and why we exist,” the Englishman argued.
“There is no need to commemorate the God who ignited the action and created the Universe,” he added.
And his position was repeated in every field in which he was questioned. “When people ask me whether God created the universe, I tell them that question doesn’t make any sense,” Hawking said in a video for the Discovery Channel.
“The simplest solution for me is that there is no God, no one created the universe and no one directs our destiny,” he said.
However, instead of denying its existence, the physicist considered this question futile.
“It cannot be proven that God does not exist,” he told the American ABC channel in 2010. “But science makes God unnecessary.”
Although his positions earned him many religious enemies, Hawking visited the Vatican several times and attended events at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. He even gave a speech there about the origin of the universe in 2016.
Even Pope Benedict XVI. He even held meetings with Benedict and Francis where the church mourned his death in 2018.
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