Does Steven Hawking believe in religion (if so, which one)?...God?....?

Question

Steven Hawking is currently writing a book due out in 2008 on "why we have a universe." What I don't know about Hawking, is if he believes in God, or a particular religion at all.

He's known as one of the smartest people alive... I wouldn't mind knowing his opinion.

Answer 1

Hawking's stated goal is,

"a complete understanding of everything." Since the existence of the God of the Bible or singularities would guarantee that his goal would never be reached, he seeks to deny both.
Ironically, his goal was proven mathematically impossible by Kurt Godel in 1930. According to Godel's in-completeness theorem, with incomplete information about a system, one cannot prove a necessarily true theorem (i.e., a one and only one description) about that system.

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Albert Einstein's theory of relativity appeared to acknowledge the threat of an encounter with God and grudgingly accepted what he called "the necessity for a beginning" and "the presence of a superior reasoning power." But he never accepted a personal God. - Stephen Hawking has worked on the basic laws of the universe and with Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein's General Theory of Relativity implied space/ time had a beginning, The Big Bang, and an end, black holes. This indicated a necessity to unify General Relativity with Quantum Theory. One consequence of this is that he discovered that black holes should not be completely black, but should emit radiation, evaporate and disappear and that the universe has no edge or boundary in imaginary time, thus the way the universe began was determined by the laws of science.

Answer 2

He does have an idea of intelligent design and a higher power, however I do not believe he is one who believes in God. Speaking about there is not a point of creation, but a curve. He is more involved with his own mind. For a man who knows much, he is ignorant to the thought of God. In this he speaks that once we can find the origin of the beginning, we will know the mind of God.

I just think that God might have made Mr. Hawking just to prove, even if you have a disability you can have a great mind, however if you can not see that your mind was a gift from God, you are worse off that an able body person with half the intelligence

Answer 3

Steven Hawking is reportedly a deist.

Answer 4

I think he's going to focus on the Big Bang theory, and probably what has been hypothesized as the cause of the Big Bang.

I doubt it will have anything at all to do with religion.

Answer 5

i think he would not position self assurance in God, yet when someone were to present day a COMPELLING case for the existence of god, then like maximum rational human beings, i think he might want to assert god exists. even with the indisputable fact that, as David Hume once suggested, "outstanding claims call for outstanding evidence".

Answer 6

Actually No, he doesn't believe in The typical definition of "God"..
If I remember reading correctly he is a member of the Brights society.

http://www.the-brights.net/

Answer 7

I suspect he would require more proof and reason then religion can give him

The answer above is correct smart does = non religious

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Intelligence%20&%20religion.htm

http://w-uh.com/posts/031226a-religion_vs_IQ.html

Answer 8

i know he believes in a creator although im unsure if he is of any specific religion .. i feel not

Answer 9

never even heard of him..
real understanding comes through God THE TRINITY
try the book section or famous ppl whatever

Answer 10

he is atheist...all smart people are..but the smartest do not talk about it