A recent Guardian online article spoke of Sir David Attenborough receiving hate mail for not crediting God for the appearance of beauty in nature. I certainty don’t think that Sir David Attenborough should be getting hate mail, however I felt compelled to address Attenborough’s rather pompous tone.

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Stephen Hawking, Britain 's most famous physicist has reignited the perennial debate between science and religion in his forthcoming book ‘The grand design’. Extracts from his new book state there is no place for God according to his theories of the creation of the Universe and “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going”. According to Hawking, the laws of physics, not the will of God, provide the real explanation as to how life on Earth came into being. The Big Bang, he argues, was the inevitable consequence of these laws 'because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.'

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