Interesting post over on Space.com. I’m not sure just how intentionally provocative Hawking was being…
“Famed physicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that Pope John Paul II tried to discourage him and other scientists attending a cosmology conference at the Vatican from trying to figure out how the universe began.”
Hawking Discusses God And Science
(Via SPACE.com.)
I’ve seen bits and pieces that suggest Hawking is a churchgoer of some sort, but no one ever has mentioned where. Hearing this talk, I really wonder…