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"david ford" |
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26 Jan 2005 04:37:17 PM |
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Re: The Science of Second-Guessing |
maff wrote:
The Science of Second-Guessing
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12QUESTIONS.html
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
The renowned physicist discusses (via e-mail) stem-cell research,
renouncing theories and why I.Q. doesn't matter.
Stephen Hawking
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0401050416.44039c59%40posting.google.com
Hawking is not an atheist
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.980927230202.15518B-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.981023223535.2360A-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.981002001223.7287B-100000%40umbc9.umbc.edu
The Search for a Loophole to the Beginning of the Universe
in the Big Bang and to the Seeming-Design of Physics
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=Pine.LNX.4.10A.B3.10005292327160.25513-100000%40jabba.gl.umbc.edu
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: The Science of Second-Guessing |
26 Jan 2005 11:27:05 PM |
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:37:17 -0500, david ford <dford3@gl.umbc.edu>
said in alt.atheism:
Hawking is not an atheist
http://groups.google.co.in/groups?selm=Pine.SGI.3.96A.980927230202.15518B-100000%40umbc8.umbc.edu
"He's not a theist, and he's not an atheist." One can't both have and
lack belief in a god.
(BTW, there's no range from Deist to agnostic, any more than there's a
range from red to loud. Deism is a belief, agnosticism is not making
statements for which you have no evidence.)
He's said that the only reason for the inclusion of the god concept in
his books was to sell more books. That's not Deism, it's almost a
direct statement of atheism.
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I cannot conceive of a god who rewards and punishes his creatures
or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither
can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives
its physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism,
cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eter-
nity of life and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the exist-
ing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a
portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in
nature.
- Albert Einstein, as quoted in _Billions and Billions_, Carl Sagan.
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rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "maff" |
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| Title: Re: The Science of Second-Guessing |
26 Jan 2005 08:40:33 PM |
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david ford wrote:
maff wrote:
The Science of Second-Guessing
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/12/magazine/12QUESTIONS.html
Interview by DEBORAH SOLOMON
The renowned physicist discusses (via e-mail) stem-cell research,
renouncing theories and why I.Q. doesn't matter.
Stephen Hawking
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=18510aff.0401050416.44039c59%40posting.google.com
[...]
Christian fascist apologetics lack credibility.
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