Best newspaper headline ever

Gregor Samsa

I was just watching Newsnight on BBC1, and they did their usual preview of the UK newspaper front pages for tomorrow. The final one was The Times, which leads its front page with:

HAWKING: GOD DID NOT CREATE UNIVERSE

What a brilliant headline!

Now, while I don't think this revelation is "news" to anyone here, I just think that in an age where the most frivolous celebrity gossip dominates our media, and on a day where the suggestion of two men sharing a hotel room has cost one his job, such an article as the lead story in a major newspaper is a welcome blast of rationality. Enjoy it while it lasts.



(you need a subscription to view the article online, but the first paragraph of it can be seen here, although the headline is different on the online version)

MrStuffins

It's silly alright!

The front guy from The Darkness is hardly newsworthy these days!

Cavehill Red

Nope. This is the best -

Dades

phutyle wrote: »

HAWKING: GOD DID NOT CREATE THE UNIVERSE

Well I'm convinced anyway.

I can totally imagine him saying it in his robot voice, too.

mehfesto

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Nope. This is the best -

Aw, I was gonna post that one!

CokaColumbo

Bit of a mix up...

http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Massive-blow-jobs-for-Belmullet-the-headline-thats-shaking-Ireland-with-laughter.html

Zillah

Possibly the Smartest Man on the Planet wrote:

Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing.

Oh...ohhhh this is gold.

MrStuffins

Zillah wrote: »

Oh...ohhhh this is gold.

I'd have gone for Frankincense!

Newaglish

ftw

cavedave

Good year for rail safety despite crashes

Re Hawking so a physicist believes in physics. Whats tomorrows headline? Mr Kipling likes cakes?

mehfesto

cavedave wrote: »

Re Hawking so a physicist believes in physics. Whats tomorrows headline? Mr Kipling likes cakes?

He previously stated though that there was a great possibility of god though, didn't he?

And that Mr.Kipling thing is ridiculous. Don't you know the cake is a lie?...

PDN

Hawking makes good headlines!

Zillah

Trust the Christian to set the blaspheming intellectual on fire.

The Mad Hatter

PDN wrote: »

Hawking makes good headlines!

... o.O

Galvasean

I feel awful for laughing at that

SarahBM

phutyle wrote: »

I was just watching Newsnight on BBC1, and they did their usual preview of the UK newspaper front pages for tomorrow. The final one was The Times, which leads its front page with:

HAWKING: GOD DID NOT CREATE UNIVERSE

What a brilliant headline!

Now, while I don't think this revelation is "news" to anyone here, I just think that in an age where the most frivolous celebrity gossip dominates our media, and on a day where the suggestion of two men sharing a hotel room has cost one his job, such an article as the lead story in a major newspaper is a welcome blast of rationality. Enjoy it while it lasts.



(you need a subscription to view the article online, but the first paragraph of it can be seen here, although the headline is different on the online version)

cant you just imagine all the cardinals gathering in the situation room in the Vatican, discussing how to deal with the situation! LOL Bennie is probably unsubscribing from the times as we speak!

Galvasean

Which Indo person will try to out logic Hawking, Quinn or Myers (although in fairness to the latter, he seems busy withthe metro North crusade)?

Turtwig

Galvasean wrote: »

Which Indo person will try to out logic Hawking, Quinn or Myers (although in fairness to the latter, he seems busy withthe metro North crusade)?

Quinn of course:

But why is there matter?
...
Why is there matter?
...
The bible doesn't state that.
..
Why is there matter.

Sadly religion is like hydra cuts off its head and two more stupid beliefs will grow back.

Dades

No doubt the fact that this is all still just "theory" will be paraded about as an actual rebuttal.

PDN

Dades wrote: »

No doubt the fact that this is all still just "theory" will be paraded about as an actual rebuttal.

I don't see anything that needs to be rebutted.

Hawking's theory suggests that:

1. The origin of the universe can be explained without reference to God.
2. Therefore there is no 'need' for God.
3. Therefore there is 'no room' for God.

So, even assuming (1) were to be correct, is it necessary to point out the light-years sized leap of logic required to get from (2) to (3)?

magicbastarder

jackie hayden in hot press tried to get jack charlton to interview brendan behan's surviving brothers, simply so he could use 'jack and the behans talk' as a headline.

strobe

PDN wrote: »

1. The origin of the universe can be explained without reference to God.
2. Therefore there is no 'need' for God.
3. Therefore there is 'no room' for God.

So, even assuming (1) were to be correct, is it necessary to point out the light-years sized leap of logic required to get from (2) to (3)?

Not at all. If the origin of the Universe can be explained without reference to god of course there is no room for god in the theoretical physics of how the universe originated. Putting god (or any supernatural omnipotent entity) in there somewhere just means you no longer have to find another cause or explanation. Why try to work out why or how dark energy exists if you could just call it the breathe of god and move on to the next problem?

ShooterSF

PDN wrote: »

I don't see anything that needs to be rebutted.

Hawking's theory suggests that:

1. The origin of the universe can be explained without reference to God.
2. Therefore there is no 'need' for God.
3. Therefore there is 'no room' for God.

So, even assuming (1) were to be correct, is it necessary to point out the light-years sized leap of logic required to get from (2) to (3)?

Surely the problem was some believers saying that they were fine with (accepted) evolution and fine with (accepted) big bang theory but science still couldn't show how the universe was created without God. Now it might be possible to offer a plausible alternative which will hopefully over years be studied and reinforced like the two theories I mentioned previously. Hopefully then with that gap filled less will believe.

Dades

PDN wrote: »

I don't see anything that needs to be rebutted.

Well certainly here we've have a bunch or recent visiting posters who claim that because "something can't come from nothing - God must exist".

At least now we can say, well, according to one of the biggest brains on the planet - "it possibly can".

Galvasean

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