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God or gravity, does it matter?

Ah, I thought, when I picked up The Times on Thursday, I knew Stephen Hawking would see the light eventually.

“God did not create universe,” said the headline. But then I thought: was that really any reason to hold the front page?

Hawking, a man of reason himself, had hitherto hedged his bets.