Hawking: "God did not create the universe"

British scientist Stephen Hawking says in his new book, The Grand Design (The Grand Design), the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, that God created the universe and that the most current scientific theories become redundant figure of a creator. The book, which the British newspaper The Times ahead of today excerpts, notes: "Since there is a law such as gravity, the universe itself-and indeed did-could be created out of nothing themselves. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something, there is the universe that we exist. " Therefore, he adds, "it is not necessary to invoke God" so that there is cosmos.

In his most popular work, A Brief History of Time (A Brief History of Time), a text of disclosure about the universe and its evolution, Hawking, a theoretical physicist internationally recognized for their contributions in matters of cosmology, black holes and quantum gravity, It suggested that "if we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason because then we would know the mind of God." Now he argues that, just as Darwinism eliminated the need for a creator in the field of biology, new theories of physics make redundant the role of a creator of the universe. The last book, written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow, will be released on 9 September, a week before the Pope's visit to Britain.

Existing arguments suggest that Hawking has broken with his earlier view about religion, when maintained that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang. Now it stands, for example, the discovery of the first extrasolar planet in 1992, helped to dismantle the vision of Isaac Newton that the universe could not emerge from chaos but was created by God. That finding "makes the precise conditions of our planetary system-the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar-mass are much less showy and not at all convincing evidence that the Earth was carefully designed to satisfy humans, "write Hawking and his colleague in the new book.

British physicist has completed 68 years and suffering for decades a serious neurological disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which paralyzed his body almost completely. Due to an emergency tracheotomy that was performed a few years ago he lost the ability to speak and expressed with great difficulty through a computer that handles your eyes and artificial voice synthesizer.

He hawking occupied from 1979 until his recent retirement, the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, which had been its historical colleague Isaac Newton.