Of course Hawking throws all religions into the same heap, ignoring the fact that there can only be one true religion. True religion and true science are complementary, which anyone knows who has studied the history of the Catholic Church. After some conference a number of years ago, a devotee of Hawking’s asked him during a Q&A session, not if he believed in God, but if there was a God? Now that I read that he holds that human life is “insignificant in the universe,” I can understand why he didn’t condition his reply, or preface it with some qualification that he was only giving an opinion; no, he gave a straight one word answer without hesitation: “No!”
Deacon Fournier at CatholicOnline: He posited his personal opinions that human life is “insignificant in the universe” and that there is an adversarial relationship between science and religion. He told Sawyer “There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.” Full article is here.
