Posted on 09/02/2010 6:21:27 AM PDT by tlb
The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
In his latest book, The Grand Design, an extract of which is published in Eureka magazine in The Times, Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”
“It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”
In June this year Prof Hawking told a Channel 4 series that he didn't believe that a "personal" God existed. He told Genius of Britain: "The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science? I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions."
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The big band just describes a change in matter; for small and dense to large and expanding. It in no way explains the creation of matter. Shoosh, when will physicists be honest about the limitations of their field. Its called physics for a reason: it explains the physical world. How could a physicist explain nothing, much less how nothing became something? Foolish man.
Actually, generally relativity says a day could be both 24 hours and a million years depending on the vantage point of the one doing the measuring. Time is relative.
So the atheists believe that the “laws of physics” preexisted physicality itself. That’s good to know. I always wondered about that.
The creation of the universe and the creation of man can be answered in simple terms, “God created everything”. I feel that the answer is not that simple, its beyond our comprehension, and our brains are not yet fully developed to comprehend it. I won’t knock Hawkings on his believes or theories because we can’t prove it one way or the other. He could be right or he could be wrong, at this point, its like saying God created man, or did man create God? I do believe that Hawkings IQ level far exceeds that of the average person and I do not believe he is the spawn of the Devil.
God always existed.
Our weak little minds can’t wrap around the concept of forever. We only understand time as having a finite beginning and end.
We can’t fully comprehend infinity.
Show me one theory that states complex life forms came from nothing.
A regular day is defined as having a morning and an evening.
And every day of creation was qualified as having a morning and an evening.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And the evening and the morning were the third day.
And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Seriously, it’s a supernatural event. There is no need to appease the atheists by saying a “day” is a billion years.
An egg which came from no bird is no more ‘natural’ than a bird which had existed from all eternity.
- C.S. Lewis
Well put
The universe as we know it might have begun as a big bang, but where did it all begin even before that? Hawkings’s answer is short sighted.
Funny...Hawking mentions “the LAW” of gravity. There is order to the universe and these nut jobs who deny this are in fact in denial.
Because THEY are gods.
Gen 3:4 “you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”
The book of Genesis was written using a form of Hebrew that is meant to be taken literally. It is a history/law book. It is not apocryphal (sp?) nor symbolic.
The word used for "day" literally means 24 hours. The standard earth day with which we are all famililar.
A point of infinite energy is not “nothing”
The entire universe was created from something, but not something tangible to the human mind.
Doesn’t that just mean that God created the Universe by simply thinking about it? He didn’t even have to lift a finger!
Hawking's disease and the way he presents himself to the world -- in that wheelchair and communicating only by tapping on a button, makes him a more mythical character and adds to the drama. That's why he is taken so seriously.
Now if I were really cynical I would say it's all part of an elaborate hoax to market Hawking and his "ideas". But I am not, so I won't.
So says a man who clearly has never met Oprah's tailor
I re-read the same book about a year ago...
after several years of Christian worldview studies,
it made infinitely more sense this time, though it was incredibly insightful the first time.
Sowell has never come out and stated his faith,
but no one can have that great a grasp on the TRUTH
without biblical grounding.
The funny thing is, I thought over the years since I first read it that Sowell had used religious references in defining the constrained vision. Now I see that I superimposed my own religious faith on his language. But I think you are right that his philosophy and its source is there to see for those with eyes to see.
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