"The Grand Design" Co-Author, Leonard Mlodinow

Countdown with Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, 9-9-2010

Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, The Grand Design

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[allgoo19]

Galileo is looking down from the heaven and laughing at us now. ^_^

Oh wait, there's no such thing as heaven....

It's still an entertaining idea though.

[alphacause]

I also find it funny that as science advances more and more, the defense of God constantly has to redefine him in such a way that he resembles less and less of what Christians, Jews, and Muslims think he is. And yet they still rely on such shabby arguments, like the Kalam Cosmological argument, to prove their specific God, when it proves nothing of the sort. As science advances, God becomes smaller and smaller, and has fewer places to hide.

[lukose2007]

William Lane Craig has BETTER ARGUMENTS for the EXISTENCE OF GOD.

[orestisDisturbed]

ahahaha 1:32 , they call scientists = "terrorists" now.... and they say that our questions should just STOP when it comes to God....

YEAH - like that's new....

religious people act and think the same way as they did many centuries ago.... i guess they just forgot to evolve....

[gary031183]

@do0me0nice Maybe not. But what do I have to prove? That there is no god? I can't prove that he doesn't exist. The theist has to prove that he does. HOWEVER, when they get angry when someone calls them out, I say that it shows the weakness of their argument. I am not saying that it disproves god. It just shows that they have no evidence to prove god exists.

[RyuDarragh]

@Xgya2000: Secular (or, scientific) faith is faith that things that have repeated the same way in the same experiment will continue to repeat the same way each time barring the discovery of new knowledge. Religious faith is believing without any evidence whatsoever. Slight change of emphasis on the evidence part there :)

[Xgya2000]

@TheOpprobrium

Well, seeing the long history of biblical refusal of knowledge just makes it look that way.

I know many people of faith with equal scientific knowledge. Some simply say that God is in parabols and must not be taken to the letter (which I agree all religions should)

Bashing religion for it's refusal of science is OK. Anyone smart enough to combine the two can if he wills it so. I won't stop them.

Science isn't based on faith (except faith in it's progression and use, of course)

[TheOpprobrium]

@Xgya2000 Absolutely not; in fact I believe it will be well received. My issue lies in the fact that having faith and being a supporter of science is now seen as somehow incongruous. I simply cannot stand the phony atheists who blather on about religion without pedigree or reputation. Having faith in science (smile) does not mean one has carte blanche to bash religion; in fact I believe it diminishes your own view.

[Xgya2000]

@TheOpprobrium

Well, I haven't seen a free Qu'ran yet, so I can't really comment. I guess eating the flesh of a dead prophet is more popular than thinking another prophet saw the edge of the world, eh?

I was just saying that as far as cheap books go, the Bible is the way to go!

For a moment, I thought you were dismissing Hawking's book as a "book no one will read". That was what I answered to.