* What do you think? Can you wrap your mind around something being created from nothing?
Not quite. I don't suffer from the need to have a God. I am God as far as I am concerned. The something from nothing bit is sure hard to explain though.
* Do you think the bulk of Hawking's work will mark science's final rejection of God?
I think his work will be nothing more than his work. Science as a whole can't accept or reject a God. Science is a collection of facts and observations. Only people themselves could reject a God and that is already happening. I think there is a point when all the scientists will accept that there is no God.
* Do you think science and religion will continue to coexist?
Yes. Science is not picking a fight, fundamentally it is impersonal. Religion, fundamentally, is personal so it has a fight everywhere it looks. As long as people are people and not robots there will be religion. As long as people enjoy luxuries there will be science.
* Do you think they should?
It is never a matter of should. People cannot be forced to abandon religion or accept science. They will continue or not I have no choice.
* Do you think they can, adequately?
They are now. People have always flocked to religion to get what they want. Now there is a new sugar daddy in town called technology handing out cars and iPads and rocket ships, only what science has to say about life isn't what people want to hear. So as long as people can have the best of both worlds religion and science, I think they will.
Hitler was right about everything.