Is There Room in Science for God

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In the Star newspaper yesterday, I read an interview by Wong Chun Wai with the great Stephen Hawking.

The answer to this question fascinated me somewhat.

You are a man of science. Is there room for God?

The question is, is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can’t understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second.

If you like, you can call the laws of science God, but it wouldn’t be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions, though if there were such a God, I would like to ask how ever did He think of anything as complicated as M-theory in 11 dimensions

Jeradyne told me. "He could very well be the most intelligent dead person in Hell!"

Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge for thirty years, taking up the post in 1979 and retiring on 1 October 2009. He is also a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario. He is known for his contributions to the fields of cosmology and quantum gravity, especially in the context of black holes. He has also achieved success with works of popular science in which he discusses his own theories and cosmology in general; these include the runaway best seller A Brief History of Time, which stayed on the British Sunday Times bestsellers list for a record-breaking 237 weeks