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Stephen Hawking: God Has No Role in Universe

LONDON (Sept. 2) -- Entering the ongoing debate between faith and science, renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking claims that modern physics has now proved that God played no role in the creation of the universe. In a new book -- "The Grand Design," co-written with American physicist Leonard Mlodinow -- the...

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06/01/12 Leicester Square or bust... historians demand the... Source: BBC London The busts of William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, John Hunter and Sir Isaac Newton were taken away during the square's Â£15.3 million renovation.
05/30/12 Teenager reportedly finds solution to 350 year old... Source: 3quarksdaily In Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica published in 1687, the man many consider the most brilliant mathematician of all time used a mathematical formula to describe the path taken by an object when it is thrown through the air from one point to the next, i.e. an arc based on several factors such as the angle it is thrown at, velocity, etc. At the time, Newton explained that to get it completely right though, air resistance would need to be taken into account, though he could not figure out himself how to factor that in.
05/29/12 Pre-caffeine tech: Internet attacks, Neil Gaiman... Source: NBC - KULR-8 - Billings MT Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning.
05/29/12 Newton saved the UK economy Â£10 million Source: New Scientist Where's a scientific genius when you need one?
05/27/12 German teen solves 300-year-old mathematical riddle... Source: CW - KTLA 5 - Los Angeles CA A German 16-year-old has become the first person to solve a mathematical problem posed by Sir Isaac Newton more than 300 years ago.

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Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727 ) was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived." His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687, lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics.

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