Professor Stephen Hawking says no God created Universe

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At least he didn't say "The worlds' markets are doomed, we're all going to die."

Well, we've already ignored Hawking's actual words in order to attribute our own fears to him - why not go ahead and make insinuations about his personal life as well?

Further, I submit that the discipline of science, being young and still seemingly difficult for many to understand, has never held any of the rather silly positions attributed by ChrisVulcan.

The Sun revolving around the Earth was, like the concept of spontaneous generation, the result of spotty observation and poor logic on the part of observers, resulting in "folk wisdom". Scientific observation was what proved the curvature of the Earth, and its approximate size, around the time of Aristotle; there were no instruments capable of determining which was the satellite and which the primary until shortly before Galileo's pioneering work.

As for transmutation, that was never "scientific"; alchemy resulted from superstitious Europeans seeing early chemical experiments being conducted by Muslim scientists before the Crusades, and decreeing that such things were sorcery. And since sorcery can do many inexplicable things, like cause crop failures, why couldn't these mysterious liquids be used to turn lead into gold?

The scientific process involves repeated observations, accompanied by experiments wherever possible; said experiments must be reproducible by other scientists in other labs, in order to rule out erroneous equipment. (For instance, the recently reported apparent variation in certain radioactive decay rates has thus far been reported by only one laboratory; until it can be reproduced elsewhere, the simplest explanation is that the observational equipment is insufficiently insulated from, say, seasonal temperature variations, or local electromagnetic fields, causing erroneous data to be observed.) Experiments which result in repeated failure result in a line of inquiry being abandoned by a scientist - not a trait alchemists were known for.