Posted on 09/12/2010 7:43:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Of course, God can create circumstances to make things appear in any way; there is no way to refute the existence of God. Therefore, whether God exists or not is simply not a scientific question.
Why does Hawking have to think so small and limit his parameters? Such thinking is a sign that man views himself as the only God, as if God is beyond comprehension, then God does not exist! Sorry, but Hawking needs to look at the bigger picture!
Every created thing carries with it some residual of its creator. Since God is an uncaused existence, it is no surprise that His primordial creation should, from certain aspects, appear to be uncaused.
The atheist answers, “There is no explanation.”
The theist replies, God.
An intelligent case can be made for either answer.
But to say that the laws of physics alone answer
it is the purest nonsense
Bingo
Science can describe the Universe, but
It cannot, in principle, explain
Where it came from, or
Why it exists
For this, one requires a MetaPhysic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
?Not a failure...just doing what he likes to do....guess at how the universe works....
he has no idea....
.....he can neither prove or disprove this.
to be fair, neither can believers.
OK so how did nothing get there? Where was nothing before it became something?
One thing I got out of my studies (such as they were) of the Standard Model, is that a true TOE (Theory of Everything) could be ultimately summarized as an equation with all of creation on one side, and a zero on the other. In English: All that exists is merely another expression of nothingness. At a point, though, the math was simply beyond me.
All known symmetries do not add up to 1; they balance out to zero. All except gravity, the odd man out, and that may change the whole picture. But a TOE that incorporates gravity is still a dream.
Throughout the history of scientific inquiry, people have used "God" as shorthand for "There is no explanation (yet)."
1. There is only one universe.
2. The concept of alternate universes is stupid. The universe, by definition, is all there is, was, and will be (Carl Sagan).
3. It is even more stupid to say that a universe can exist one moment, then not exist the next moment, then come back into existence a little later.
4. I’m still laughing over the idea that a universe can exist in the “no-universe state.”
5. My sides still hurt from laughing over the idea that a universe can pop into existence spontaneously.
I've yet to see an improvement on this
The Laws of Physics show the path to the Creation
Hawking cannot define the creation without following the Law
Where did the Law Come From?
Hawking is a Lilliputian in the field of Isaac Newton.
Thoughts are only evident when reality appears in front of the originator, know God? Then we can see what is creating by His spoken word..
Don Knotts
And The Universe is more interesting than poor Stephen can imagine ... see fifth chapter of Daniel, Old Testament, for an ‘other dimensional being’ visiting Belshazzar’s palace party central, invisible except for a forearm/hand.
Hawking figures since he’s mess up, there can’t be a higher power.
“With all his “brilliance”, I don’t think that Hawkings has accomplished anything useful for the world.” Such a foolish statement! Stephen has been a teacher all of his adult life! And his work on black holes has advanced the understandings in Physics. Stephen Hawking has been a tremendous addition to the human species ... because God made him and had a plan for Stephen’s life. Thanks be to God that our species has such men as Stephen Hawking or Christopher Hitchens. These men make some of us THINK!
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