I’VE always admired Stephen Hawking’s Dalek voice. It and the wheelchair-bound brain of Britain speak of great human resource and courage against all odds.

But it was sad this week to hear it disowning the beliefs of thousands in Lancashire while supporting the new breed of unscientific fundamentalists, those who claim that God didn’t create the Universe.

He had seemed to be doing so well, avoiding this new ‘Taliban-like’ tendency, when he famously concluded, "If we do discover a Theory of Everything... it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we would truly know the mind of God."

However, his new book this Thursday reveals that he’s really with the narrow-minded scientists who insist that all we need are white coats and test tubes.

Baroness Greenfield, Oxford professor and former head of the Royal Institute, used the Taliban expression when she criticised the ‘smugness’ of some scientists who claim to ‘have all the answers’.

She added: “All science is provisional and therefore to claim to have definitive answers to anything is a hard-line view. It would be a very great shame if young people think that to be a scientist you must be an atheist.”

Science may have made massive strides but it’s never going to be able to tell us about the important things of life such as love, beauty, truth, morality, and certainly nothing about the One who created it.

Science dares to tell us that it’s the answer to everything when it can’t even decide what the universe itself is made of.