Stephen Hawking: "I'm an Athiest"

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/im-atheist-stephen-hawking-god-space-travel-n210076

In the past, there's been a tiny bit of ambiguity: In "A Brief History of Time," Hawking writes that the discovery of a unifying set of scientific principles known as the theory of everything would enable scientists to "know the mind of God." But in a follow-up book about the quest for the theory of everything, titled "The Grand Design," Hawking said the mechanism behind the origin of the universe was becoming so well known that God was no longer necessary.

Pinworm said:

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/im-atheist-stephen-hawking-god-space-travel-n210076

In the past, there's been a tiny bit of ambiguity: In "A Brief History of Time," Hawking writes that the discovery of a unifying set of scientific principles known as the theory of everything would enable scientists to "know the mind of God." But in a follow-up book about the quest for the theory of everything, titled "The Grand Design," Hawking said the mechanism behind the origin of the universe was becoming so well known that God was no longer necessary.

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When Einstein, Hawking, or most other great physicists use the term god, it is not in the religious magical being deity sense that can break physical laws, it is a metaphor for TOE, or nature, or the seeming design of the cosmos, etc.. It's more of a deist thing than a theist thing. Both Hawking and Einstein have made it very clear several times throughout their careers that they do not believe in a personal god, as is the case with the vast majority of scientists...

I think he's no more then a shill anyway.