In a recent interview with a Spanish newspaper, British physicist Steven Hawking claimed that there is no God, remarkingthat he believes that science offers a more convincing explanation for why the world exists than biblical Creation.

Hawking, who suffers from a motor neuron disease similar to ALS but has far outlived the normal life expectancy, told El Mundo journalist Pablo Jauregui in an interview published on Sunday that he doesnt believe in God or miracles.

[A]lthough many have come to describe it as a miracle that Hawking is still alive, half a century after being diagnosed with a disease whose life expectancy is usually a couple of years, the astrophysics rejects all religious beliefs, Jauregui explained.

The El Mundo reporter asked Hawking about his beliefs since in his book History of Time Hawking asserted that if the theory of everything were unlocked, man would know the mind of God. But Hawking had also noted in the later publication The Grand Design that he believed the universe came come out of nothing, out of nowhere, and that God is not necessary to explain the origin of life.

As Jauregui found the two statements to be contradictory, he sought to know whether Hawking had changed his mind between publications and converted to atheism or agnosticism.

In the past, before we understood the science was logical to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation, Hawking replied. What I meant when I said I would know the mind of God was that we would understand all that God would be able to understand if any exist.

But there is no God. I am an atheist, he continued. Religion believes in miracles, but they are not supported by science.

In past statements to the media, while not necessarily declaring his atheism, Hawking has likewise expressed his rejection of the supernatural.

Im not religious in the normal sense, he told the BBC in 2007. I believe the Universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

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Physicist Steven Hawking Claims There Is No God, Says He Is Atheist