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Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

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Re: Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

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I propose something interesting. Create a computer program that has some rules so is able to question whether there is God, and whose answer is We are. Then you can refine the program, when then program is very complex, say it satisfies Turing test, we can think about God with the help of this machine. I think people playing the game Life with its evolving capabilities must have been thinking something along these lines.

Re: Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

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If evolution is such a obvious theory as to be taken as fact, then why are there no species obviously evolving into another? According to the theory, millions of years ago Chimps evolved into humans. Why then are there no chimps in a stage of evolving that would signify a progression to a different species? They've had millions of years to do so...

How do you know there aren't any?

Surely if they did, they'd be widely referenced and be irrefutable?

My point is, evolution is a theory, which cannot be proved even by its most hardened supporters. There is more gray here than you would seem to admit.

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