I may be a minority in many circles, but I have never seen religion and science as mutually exclusive. There are many needs that religion fills, and there are many basic truths of life that science can explain.
Scientists OFTEN make discoveries that disprove or discount what they formerly held as unchanging Fact -- and they'll keep doing that, as long as they study things and ask questions.
But there is one thing I know -- and Mr. Hawking should know this, too: science cannot prove the nonexistence of anything. It can only prove, through evidence, that something does exist. Therefore, Mr. Hawking should know better than to say something does not exist.
(But otherwise, I think he has a very brilliant mind.)
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2011-05-17 08:04 pm (UTC)Scientists OFTEN make discoveries that disprove or discount what they formerly held as unchanging Fact -- and they'll keep doing that, as long as they study things and ask questions.
But there is one thing I know -- and Mr. Hawking should know this, too: science cannot prove the nonexistence of anything. It can only prove, through evidence, that something does exist. Therefore, Mr. Hawking should know better than to say something does not exist.
(But otherwise, I think he has a very brilliant mind.)