MORE BAD NEWS FOR THE FUNDIES

Religious barbarians just can't seem to get a break these days.

God did not create the universe, says Hawking
By Michael Holden

LONDON | Thu Sep 2, 2010 9:08am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) - God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.