Stephen Hawking lays out case for Big Bang without God

I'm no scientist, not even close. But this report seems to raise more questions than it answers:

PASADENA, Calif. — Our universe didn't need any divine help to burst into being, famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking told a packed house here at the California Institute of Technology Tuesday night...M-theory posits that multiple universes are created out of nothing, Hawking explained, with many possible histories and many possible states of existence.

Evidently, Hawking is saying the universe's origin defies the First Law of Thermodynamics, which says matter can neither be created nor destroyed. In other words, the amount of matter or energy in the universe is constant, and it can be converted, moved, stored or dissipated, but will not be created or eliminated.

That law is a basic part of all physical sciences. Unless I'm missing something, Hawking needs to explain what force was able to do what can’t be done.

Global Warming as Pathological Science

Today's Global Warming campaign is endangering real, honest science. Global Warming superstition has become an international power grab, and good science suffers as a result.

...Pathological science kills people and ruins lives. Such fake science is still peddled by the PC establishment in Europe and America. Global Warming is only the most recent case. Rachel Carson's screed against DDT caused malaria to re-emerge in Africa, killing hundreds of thousands of human beings. Those human-caused disasters have never been discussed honestly in the media, and rarely if ever in science journals. The DDT scandal is still suppressed.

...Some scientists rationalize this corruption of their vocation by saying that people can lie for a good cause. The record shows otherwise. Fraudulent science and science journalism has led to AIDS going out of control; to DDT being banned and malaria gaining a new lease on life in Africa; to decades of famines in Russia; to children being badly mis-educated on such basics as reading and arithmetic; to end endless slew of unjustified health scares, like Mad Cow; and to a worldwide Leftist campaign cynically aiming to gain international power and enormous sums of money, based on a simple, unscientific fraud. LINK