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Da fuq, why we still got bananas?

 

[xbhaskarx]

Pretty nice of him to decide for everyone.

So the billions of people who say there is a god have similarly "decided for everyone"?

 

[SolarPowered]

But what if I don't like the answers science gives me? What then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_Alexandria

 

[Nilaul]

Kinda sucks; I want to live forever now. FUCK DYING.

 

[ComputerMKII]

I thought the point of religions was that science is there to explain 'how' but it's not its role to explain 'why'.

 

[BocoDragon]

Considering we're not certain what is even beyond our own universe, I don't see how anybody can categorically say either way.

Then explain religion

 

[Monocle]

He added: "Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science."​

What is he trying to imply with this statement, guys?

That magic is bullshit?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_the_Library_of_Alexandria

History is full of great lessons. Can someone help me light Wikipedia on fire?

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

Let the insults commence

 

[El Topo]

He added: "Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science."​

What is he trying to imply with this statement, guys?

The obvious fact that by definition miracles are not explainable by science and thus incompatible?

 

[Ramrock]

Opinions can be wrong too.

Exactly! And his opinion here is as right/wrong as mine.

 

[ponpo]

Official retort from the religious community

 

[dr3upmushroom]

He added: "Religion believes in miracles, but these aren't compatible with science."​

What is he trying to imply with this statement, guys?

The storm suddenly stopped/the cancer was reversed/your football team won because everyone prayed really hard.

 

[Mariolee]

How? I'm a professional scientist and I believe in God. In fact all the scientists in my lab believe in God.

This thread is about to get a whole lot more interesting. I feel that there is this false perception that most scientists are atheistic when a recent report even stated that, at least in the U.S., 75% of scientists prescribed to a religious faith and a good majority of them attended their respective church regularly. This is Hawking's opinion, and not at all indicative of the mind of the scientific community as a whole as it seems to be constantly misperceived.

 

[Deified Data]

The obvious fact that by definition miracles are not explainable by science?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????

I added more snarky question marks for you.

 

[LQX]

I respect Stephen Hawking but lets be honest, he more than most would have a grudge against G_d because of his situation.

 

[NullPointer]

But what if I don't like the answers science gives me? What then?

There's always solace to be found in the irrational ;p

I like to keep a mix of both in my daily life.

And just to be sure, I didn't mean to sleight believers in God when I said that its irrelevant or unnecessary in scientific pursuit. I'm sure there are plenty of scientists who are inspired by their faith and who know to separate their spiritual flights in the clouds from the rigors of their scientific work on Earth.

Others? Not so much.

 

[Rymuth]

I clicked on this topic thinking he had an equation or something...how anticlimatic. :/

 

[GentlemanCrow]

I was wondering why McGonagall stiffed me on the Hogwarts invite...

 

[Orayn]

Da fuq, why we still got bananas?

I still love how incredibly wrong that old banana example was. The "dessert" banana is a human creation that wouldn't excuse without us playing God and trying to invent a tastier fruit.

 

[Gonzalez]

Now if only the rest of the world could accept it and move on, the world would be a much better place to live on for everyone.

You still need something that keeps the majority of people grounded.

 

[block tower]

I keep seeing this shit: "oh, Mr Hawking is just salty because God didn't cure him".

Pretty bad taste and false because his gnostic atheism is much more recent than his disease.

im not saying he us salty. im making the point that people like to say his condition makes him angry and that is why he'd choose not to
believe in a God. and im saying that he , like most people with diseases, probably made a real effort to believe in God and pray to him for healing. when religious people throw around the line "God performs miracles", and nothing hapoens, like healing a disease like Hawkings, its hard to take the idea of God performing miracles or answering prayer seriously. so it likely discouraged Hawking if something like that happened.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

This thread is about to get a whole lot more interesting. I feel that there is this false perception that most scientists are atheistic when a recent report even stated that, at least in the U.S., 75% of scientists prescribed to a religious faith and a good majority of them attended their respective church regularly. This is Hawking's opinion, and not at all indicative of the mind of the scientific community as a whole as it seems to be constantly misperceived.

I thought religious people weren't allowed to be intelligent.

Need to see some research papers

 

[Lautaro]

Exactly! And his opinion here is as right/wrong as mine.

Hahaha, who the fuck are you?

Do you even science, bro?!

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Ok now what

 

[iMax]

The obvious fact that by definition miracles are not explainable by science and thus incompatible?

What miracles are unexplainable by science out of interest?

 

[Cheddahz]

 

[iMax]

I respect Stephen Hawking but lets be honest, he more than most would have a grudge against G_d because of his situation.

His situation? He's defied all the odds and lived far longer than his doctors thought he would.

 

[Mario]

Journalist should have stayed away from Pascal's Wager and irreducible complexity and stuck with putting scrutiny on the "There is no God" claim to knowledge.

As it stands, terrible article.

 

[Mariolee]

The obvious fact that by definition miracles are not explainable by science and thus incompatible?

Well, that's not a fact. That's more of an interpretation of what miracles are. To those of faith in the scientific community I've talked to, most of them describe miracles as something that is scientifically possible, but mostly implausible because it's so unlikely to happen.

 

[lazer_bean]

I realize disproving God is just as hard as proving it.

it's impossible to prove that something doesnt exist.

 

[Tesseract]

i'm disappointed he said these things, oh well.

 

[Lautaro]

im not saying he us salty. im making the point that people like to say his condition makes him angry and that is why he'd choose not to.
believe in a God; and im saying that he , like most people with diseases, probably made a real effort to believe in God and pray to him for healing. when religious peope throw around the line "God performs miracles, and something like healing a disease like Hawkings doesnt happen after praying, its hard to take the idea of God performing miracles seriously. so likely it only discouraged Hawking if nothing ever happened after praying, if that ever even happened.

And what do you have to support all this bullshit? faith?

That's nonsense. People don't become atheist because they are "mad with God", they become atheist because they can't believe, because their knowledge of the world has a conflict with the idea of faith.

 

[Sapiens]

Everything I come I see God. Explain that Hawking.

 

[Gonzalez]

Everything I come I see God. Explain that Hawking.

Everything you cum on?

 

[ponpo]

Looked so dapper.

 

[Mariolee]

I thought religious people weren't allowed to be intelligent.

Need to see some research papers

Seriously though.

Most scientists don't even care or ask what religion you do or don't believe in. Just do your fucking work and we'll all get along just fine.

 

[Vagabundo]

Of course there is: who created the simulation we all live in.

 

[ugly]

What is there to explain about social networking? Did this guy not watch that youtube video showing what human interactions look like under an MRI scan? Should see those tongues touching man. It's just a straight-up physical manifestation of nerve-endings. The whole thing is. People just like touching and feeling and experiencing. All life does. So when you get social networking on the fly, you get one huge cesspot for all these mafuckers to play around in. And with this ability to see more than ever before, the individuals matter less and the overall hive-generated mindset runs rampant. Look at the SJW debacle goin' on lately. Compare that to the way buffalo migrate. You seen how a small part of the herd will try moving in a particular direction, and then decide its not worth it and rejoin the herd, with the entire collective somehow acknowledging that they were veering slightly off-course and then correcting themself? We just aren't sure what we're doing as a collective. People will get in tune with each other though.

 

[ChaosXVI]

This isn't news at all, Hawking has been making this claim since at least sometime in Fall 2010, my college anthropology class was in an uproar about it.

You should all check out Hawking's documentary on Netflix on the subject, it seems pretty airtight to me. All can be explained through science, no miracle can ever truly happen, therefore what use would a God even be? Why must there be a reason for humans to exist, why are we so special?

 

[markot]

i'm disappointed he said these things, oh well.

Yes. He shouldnt have opinions you don't like.

 

[Cuphead]

There is only Yeezus

 

[Angelus Errare]

I believe there's a god…just not anything like the ones current religions talk about.

 

[LQX]

His situation?He's defied all the odds and lived far longer than his doctors thought he would.

....but not G_d. He never gave up on him.

 

[Orayn]

What miracles are unexplainable by science out of interest?

I don't think that post is saying that miracles are real and can't be explained by science, but that believing in miracles at all means accepting that an unknown power can change anything at any time in defiance of the laws of physics. That idea is pretty hard to reconcile with a scientific worldview.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I respect Stephen Hawking but lets be honest, he more than most would have a grudge against G_d because of his situation.

Why would you have a grudge against something you don't think exists? Like an Atheist who by definition doesn't believe in any gods holds the nonexistent thing accountable for his or her problems?

 

[Man]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Read it.

 

[Coffee Dog]

That isn't how evidence works though.

"Backed up evidence?" That there is no god?
By Stephen Hawking?
Bahahahaha!
Yeah, that makes totally sense.
"Evidence".... lmao!

Sure it is. Though I am making the concession that "no reason to believe in god or what most would consider god" in this case is the long form of his answer.

You can't prove something absolutely doesn't exist, as the spaghetti monster demonstrates.

 

[Imm0rt4l]

In my opinion, we all have little troll people that live in our heads that control our thoughts.

I like the cut of your jib

 

[Tesseract]

Yes. He shouldnt have opinions you don't like.

that's not really what i meant, probably should've elaborated.

 

[daviyoung]

Has God ever been anything more than a metaphorical symbol and manifestation of fear, adventure, creation, beauty and death? I can't help but think any argument against is just a big old strawman in the sky.