Stephen Hawking died recently at the age of 76. I coincidentally just happen to be 76 myself. He was a professed atheist from an early age and thought that science and God were not compatible. In fact, I believe that they complement one another quite nicely. You might well ask, "Who am I to contradict the great man?" After all, I'm not even a Christian anymore. Don't get me wrong! I'm certainly not comparing myself with the great Stephen Hawking who was one of the cleverest individuals that ever lived. However, we shouldn’t assume that because he knew so much about physics and cosmology that he also had a handle on God too. Why, when you think about it, should he know more than anyone else about God simply because he was a scientist albeit an eminent one? The Pope cannot prove, one way or the other, that God does exist so Stephen is way down in the pecking order. No one has a conduit to God. We can’t ring him up and ask him (I'm using the m