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Rael Supports Hawking: 'There's No Need of a God to Explain the Universe!'
Published: Monday, Sep. 6, 2010 - 7:06 am
LAS VEGAS, Sept. 6 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Raelians worldwide are following with interest the heated debate sparked by British physicist Stephen Hawking's latest book, "The Grand Design."
In the book, Hawking says God had no role in the creation of the universe and evokes spontaneous creation to explain the existence of something out of nothing. Britain's religious leaders have reacted to these pronouncements in much the same way, defending an almighty god "upon whose activity everything ultimately depends for existence."
"This is a lot of blah-blah-blah for nothing, since there is no God," said Rael, founder and leader of the International Raelian Movement. Rael has previously said he disagrees with Hawking's vision of Earth humans "colonizing" the cosmos, but he said today that he agrees with the scientist's view that "there is no need for a god to explain the existence of the universe."
Writing in The Times of London, Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said, "The Bible simply isn't interested in how the universe came into being."
"This is a really funny comment, since the scriptures still teach that God created the universe," Rael said. "If Rabbi Sacks wants to be consistent in what he says, creation of the universe by God should be removed from all the religious books."
"The whole debate revolves around the need of most human beings to find a beginning to the universe," said Brigitte Boisselier, Ph.D., spokesperson for the International Raelian Movement. "Spontaneous creation or creation by an almighty being cannot satisfy any rational brain, and the only alternative is the one brought by Rael – that the universe is infinite in both time and space."
The Raelian theory of an infinite universe that has always existed has recently found support from physicist and cosmologist Wun-Yi Shu of National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He recently described a model in which the universe has neither beginning nor end, just alternating periods of expansion and contraction. In his model, Shu also shows that singularities cannot exist in this cosmos. (1)
"The concept of infinity in time and space closes the debate about an almighty god at the center of everything and yields another form of spirituality, the Raelian spirituality," Boisselier explained. "Infinite life forms exist out there and one of those civilizations has created humanity and all other life on Earth as part of an infinite cycle of scientific creation. Those creators are waiting for us to grow up and stop looking at them as gods!"
She added that physicists and biologists "will hopefully merge their observations soon so this debate about an almighty God can be left behind."
[1] http://www.physorg.com/news199591806.html
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WARNING FROM RAEL: For those who don't use their intelligence at its full
capacity, the label "selected by RAEL" on some articles does not mean that I
agree with their content or support it. "Selected by RAEL" means that I believe
it is important for the people of this planet to know about what people think or
do, even when what they think or do is completely stupid and against our
philosophy. When I selected articles in the past about stupid Christian
fundamentalists in America praying for rain, I am sure no Rael-Science reader
was stupid enough to believe that I was supporting praying to change the
weather. So, when I select articles which are in favor of drugs, anti-semitic,
anti-Jewish, racist, revisionist, or inciting hatred against any group or
religion, or any other stupid article, it does not mean that I support them. It
just means that it is important for all human beings to know about them. Common
sense, which is usually very good among our readers, is good enough to
understand that. When, like in the recent articles on drug decriminalization, it
is necessary to make it clearer, I add a comment, which in this case was very
clear: I support decriminalizing all drugs, as it is stupid to throw depressed
and sad people (as only depressed and sad people use drugs) in prison and ruin
their life with a criminal record. That does not mean that there is any change
to the Message which says clearly that we must not use any drug except for
medical purposes. The same applies to the freedom of expression which must be
absolute. That does not mean again of course that I agree with anti-Jews,
antisemites, racists of any kind or anti-Raelians. But by knowing your enemies
or the enemies of your values, you are better equipped to fight them. With love
and respect of course, and with the wonderful sentence of the French philosopher
Voltaire in mind: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it".
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"Ethics" is simply a last-gasp attempt by deist conservatives and
orthodox dogmatics to keep humanity in ignorance and obscurantism,
through the well tried fermentation of fear, the fear of science and
new technologies.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history,
it is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
On the contrary, let us embrace Science and the new technologies
unfettered, for it is these which will liberate mankind from the
myth of god, and free us from our age old fears, from disease,
death and the sweat of labour.
Rael
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