Before he died Hawking conjured up a theory that you can get something from nothing; the ultimate God-eliminating ‘science’ of all time.

‘Then in the sixties [Hawking’s] work on “black holes” proved that, contrary to all received scientific wisdom, matter could go from something to nothing. But if matter could disappear, it was only a short step to theories that the opposite was true, and that the universe as we know it, in all its beauty and complexity, had emerged not from the mind of a Creator God, but from nothing.’--- The Universe Newspaper.

‘One point to note is that there is no problem in principle with creating matter from a vacuum. Matter is just another form of energy, and can be produced if the energy input is balanced by something else. For the universe that “something else” could be negative energy in the gravitational field. If this were the case creating the universe would be like digging a hole – you’d have a pile of dirt (visible matter) balanced by a hole (gravitational field). The progress is miraculous only if you ignore the hole and insist the matter appeared “from nothing.”’--- Hazen & Trefil.

Hawking receiving Pius XI medal from Pope Paul VI and being greeted at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Popes John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis.

It can be found in a second or two on the Internet.  He looked much happier surrounded by strippers.

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