That pretty much encapsulates Christian willful ignorance right there.
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS06/606160473/1012
Hawking: John Paul said not to study start of universe
HONG KONG -- Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope
John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a
cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the
universe began.
The British scientist joked that he was lucky the pope didn't realize
he had already presented a paper at the gathering suggesting how the
universe was created.
"I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition
like Galileo," Hawking said in a lecture to a sold-out audience at
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. John Paul died in
2005; Hawking did not say when the Vatican meeting occurred.
Galileo ran afoul of the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century for
backing Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun.
The church insisted the Earth was at the center of the universe.
In 1992, John Paul issued a declaration saying the church's
denunciation of Galileo was an error.

Hawking, author of the best-seller "A Brief History of Time," said the
pope told the scientists, "It's OK to study the universe and where it
began. But we should not inquire into the beginning itself because
that was the moment of creation and the work of God."
John Paul insisted faith and science could coexist. In 1996, in a
message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he said Charles
Darwin's theories were sound as long as they took into account that
creation was the work of God and that Darwin's theory of evolution was
"more than a hypothesis."
But Hawking, 64, questioned whether an almighty power was needed to
create the universe.
"Does it require a creator to decree how the universe began? Or is the
initial state of the universe determined by a law of science?" he
asked.
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and
counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2499 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry
Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:
http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816

That pretty much encapsulates Christian willful ignorance right there.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060616/NEWS06/606160473/1012

Hawking: John Paul said not to study start of universe

HONG KONG -- Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope
John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a
cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the
universe began.

The British scientist joked that he was lucky the pope didn't realize
he had already presented a paper at the gathering suggesting how the
universe was created.

"I didn't fancy the thought of being handed over to the Inquisition
like Galileo," Hawking said in a lecture to a sold-out audience at
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. John Paul died in
2005; Hawking did not say when the Vatican meeting occurred.
Galileo ran afoul of the Roman Catholic Church in the 17th century for
backing Copernicus' discovery that the Earth revolved around the sun.
The church insisted the Earth was at the center of the universe.
In 1992, John Paul issued a declaration saying the church's
denunciation of Galileo was an error.

Hawking, author of the best-seller "A Brief History of Time," said the
pope told the scientists, "It's OK to study the universe and where it
began. But we should not inquire into the beginning itself because
that was the moment of creation and the work of God."
John Paul insisted faith and science could coexist. In 1996, in a
message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, he said Charles
Darwin's theories were sound as long as they took into account that
creation was the work of God and that Darwin's theory of evolution was
"more than a hypothesis."

But Hawking, 64, questioned whether an almighty power was needed to
create the universe.

"Does it require a creator to decree how the universe began? Or is the
initial state of the universe determined by a law of science?" he
asked.



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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division

The Bush 'balanced' budget: 2 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and
counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -2499 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting

Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless

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"Ahhhhhh, yessssssss, ummmmmmm - Alito, Alito, Alito"
-duke (duckgumbo@cox.net), aka PedophilEarl J Weber, 59
year old mateless, heirless biological failure
of Afton Oaks Apartment, Baton Rouge,who pussied
out of the Vietnam draft, showing his gay side
despite his avowed anti-gay bigotry

Contact duke's priest and ask
him why duke is such a racist:

http://www.stpatrickbr.org/
Father Gerard "Jerry" Martin
stpatrickbr<AT>bellsouth<DOT>net
Saint Patrick Catholic Church
12424 Brogdon Lane
Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816