Science vs Religion: This just in: God is Dead (Again)

Gary Lachman is mightily unimpressed by Stephen Hawking's latest pronouncements on the origins of the Universe, and wonders why scientists can't stop flogging a horse they have repeatedly declared quite dead...

On 2 September 2010, the news media tripped over themselves spreading the word that the Universe had no need of God. In a new book, The Grand Deisgn, the physicist Stephen Hawking had announced that: 'It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.'

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