Stephen Hawking visited the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 1998.
What people wanted were The Answers to the Big Questions:
How did time begin?
What was there before the universe?
Why does the universe bother to exist at all?
There are no Final Answers to these Big Questions, of course, but this does not stop people from asking. Here the public was given an opportunity to inquire of a physically disabled but cognitively brilliant man the biggest question of all: " Is there a God? "
With humor and politeness Hawking, wisely, explained:
" I do not answer God question."
(How We Believe - The Search for God in an Age of Science - Michael Shermer 2000)
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