There has been a long-standing conflict between the Catholic Church and cosmology, going back to Galileo. (McDonald, ln. 23) When they went to the Vatican, Hawking saw Galileo's Recantation, the document of Galileo's recanting on his theory that the earth went around the sun, supposedly under the pressure of the church. Hawking has a great affinity for Galileo, as he was born 300 years to the day after Galileo's death. ...

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There are many different theories out there of how the universe began and many believe in different things. Many different physicists have tried to prove the beginning of time or the existence of black holes, but none is as acclaimed as Stephen Hawking. He has had the most widespread acceptance of h...

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Many great scientists and philosophers have tried to explain the creation of the universe or the point at which time began, but no theories have been as widely accepted as Stephen Hawking's big bang theory. Stephen Hawking is the leading cosmological scientist of the past forty years and is continua...

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