How can Stephen Hawking say there "IS NO God" (i.e., with certainty)?

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At most, can’t you only say God is improbable?

Doesn’t saying absolutely “there is no God” suggest irresponsible use of reason?

How can someone say there IS NO God, therefore implying certainty?
 
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I don’t think it’s the same. Because a scientist like Stephen Hawking saying there is NO God suggests one’s used the scientific method to disprove God, which is impossible at the get-go.

Basic definition of God. And Science.
 
Beat me to it. God is no more provable then disprovable. Yet Catholics and others insist God exists. So what is any different about Hawking’s statement?
 
Does anyone know how Hawking died - atheist or Christian ?
Did he have a change of heart / mind ?
I know he liked strippers - etc - that’s a fact -
I truly hope he repented -
he seemed to be caught up with the wrong crowd, at times.
And was - maybe - a touch angry with God.
 
While I disagree the thing is equivalent, we should at least agree Stephen Hawking was NOT able to say with certainty that there is “NO” God.

And yet he did.

And hence the OP.
 
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I didn’t know that he was so carnal, might be why he said that. lol.
 
Doesn’t that mean that we shouldn’t be able to say with certainty that God does exist?
 
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What defines certainty?

I have not 100% certainty that the sink in the room next to me is still in existence. But I have good reason to think it has not popped out of existence. 100% certain? Maybe not. What is “100% certainty”? What is “certainty?”

Are we talking about confidence?
 
Stephen was a physicist, a natural scientist. He wanted tangible evidence for everything he worked with, and God isn’t a being who can be detected. There’s no “God particle” which would, once and for all, prove that He exists in a tangible manner once discovered, but this would’ve been the only evidence he’d accept, I imagine.

There are no “physical” proofs for God, which is what most atheists seem to want. His existence can only be argued with reason, metaphysics and such. This obviously wasn’t sufficient for Stephen, so all we can do for him now is pray for his soul.
 
He claims matter and energy, space and time can automatically pop into existence spontaneously out of a void without any external cause. This is how he claims the universe does not need an external cause. He is basing his claim strictly (as far as I know) on his scientific conclusions. He was a great scientist but science alone cannot prove that God does not exist.
 
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Then he should have said improbable.

Thing is, social media is going to take this news piece, make it viral, and then label it as dogma. Because Stephen Hawking was so “smart.”
 
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And yet, he worked at the Vatican’s science academy, geothermal mapping the universe to p(name removed by moderator)oint the Big Bang.
 
Perhaps, if Hawking is currently working on a second edition, it might be revised accordingly.
 
Assuming, you mean, if he’s working on one from the afterlife?
 
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Then he should have said improbable.

Thing is, social media is going to take this news piece, make it viral, and then label it as dogma. Because Stephen Hawking was so “smart.”
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Maybe, but he didn’t seem to want to believe, and that would influence his choice of words.
 
I think I’d take the headline and sensational reporting with a grain of salt. Everything I’ve ever read of Dr. Hawking has never suggested that he was so reckless with his science as to make such a statement with that level of certainty in a factual, verifiable manner.
 
I thought the same thing, but then the article itself quotes from the book, which bluntly says “There is no God.”
 
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