The law of spontaneous generation was disproved by Louis Pasteur through his vaccine breakthrough research. They almost threw him in prison for “speaking” heresy against science.
If we had kept with it we would have never thought that pathogens actualy pass from one person to the other, that parasitic possession is real and transmitable, thus mandating life saving measures of quarantining.
The same goes for the spirit or listening to liberal drivel or being amongst sinners.
The salient point is not whether Hawkins is right or not, but where did his mindset on the stuff come from? How was his science derived from this? I can hardly believe science is the genesis of the conclusions he comes with.
There is such a thing as theoretical physics and ideological theory, and often great errors and blindness are perpetrated in projecting shadows and reading datas to fit one’s theory and one’s depression to transmit to others.
I wonder, do ya suppose that the ‘going smaller and smaller’ until it is learned that there is a limit to how small a something can be is what sends minds like Stephen’s into these odd little rages? I mean, Stephen doesn’t yet want to admit that a smidgen of time and a pinch of energy is a photon. How can he see the start of it all if he still hasn’t come to grips with creation being the start of dimensions time and space? We only sense what has already happened. We don’t even sense a rpesent event. What circuits would it blow in Stephen’s mind if he were shown a future event?!