Hawking's Answers

🔴Is there God?

So when people ask me, if a god created the universe. I tell them the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the big bang. So there is no time for god to make the universe in. 

It's like asking the directions to the edge of the earth. The earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge. So looking for it, is a futile excercise.

We are each free to believe what we want and that's my view that the simplest explanation is "There is no god." No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. 

These leaks lead to a profound realization. There's probably no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that I'm extremely grateful.

🔴So what's the purpose of life then?

It's clear that we're just an advanced breed of primates on a minor planet orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among 100 billion galaxies. 

But, ever since the dawn of civilization, people have craved for an understanding of the underlying order of the world. 

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary and there should be no boundary to human endevour. 

We are all different. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope.

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