>"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason." Hawking is wrong w

>"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason." Hawking is wrong when he says "Religion is based on authority". At the base/root of all/most religions, is an inquiry into truth. Today, religion has become authority, but that is not the true meaning. Both science and religion inquire into the true nature of things. It seems science is only concerned with physical things, matter and energy, whereas the root of religion goes a step prior to that, to what even observes/experiences this.