| God, Stephen Hawking and M Theory I speak my brain on Channel 4 News about the booksellers' current favourite controversy - Stephen Hawking versus GodYesterday, when I should have been writing a paper about data from the Atlas detector at Cern's Large Hadron Collider, I was taxied across Geneva to talk live on television to Jon Snow about Stephen Hawking's apparent sudden conversion to atheism.Talking about God is well out of my comfort zone but I thought I should agree to do it since I worry that manufactured religion vs science wars can be very damaging and I didn't feel I should wimp out of trying to inject some sense. In fact Jon Snow and Channel 4 News hosted what I think was a very reasonable discussion. Phew.Oh, and by the way, Stephen Hawking hasn't changed his mind about God.Stephen HawkingJon Butterworthguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
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