Thought for the Day from Stephen Hawking

From Tom Conroy's review of Hawking's Discovery Channel special tomorrow at 8 pm, "Did God Create the Universe?"

In one of several leaps that most of us will agree to accept rather than understand, he says that the universe contains as much negative energy as positive energy, and thus, it adds up to nothing, so the mass or energy didn't need to come from somewhere else.

Yes, because it comes from the Oracle, most of us will just accept this, like steers that accept their place in the...