Thanks for sharing this.
I like this part:
“Just as strong is the obvious reality that we are moral beings, capable of understanding the difference between right and wrong. There is no scientific route to such ethics.”
Why are these people so afraid of God?
I guess I could understand why a person in Hawking’s position might not be oh so thrilled about God. If I had a terrible disease as he does I might be pretty negative about God and/or Nature and/or Fate, whichever.
This article confirmed my suspicions that there wasn’t much new in what he’s recently written.
Obviously “gravity” is a description of an existing fact, not an actor in any sense of the term.
Also, clearly, the failure to find extra-terrestrial life after all this time, or their failure to find us (some think they have found us, I realize that, but let’s face it, they’ve found very, very few at best) seems to frustrate these atheists, but I don’t know why.
The atheists seem to think that it is believers who have God in a box, but actually it is they who do.
What believer really thinks they can understand God, or even begin to comprehend Him or His power?
But the atheists think they can say God not needed, gravity’s enough, or god is dead, or wait until we find space aliens, and they’ve made the argument.
Why couldn’t there be space aliens AND humans and both created in God’s image?
Because we don’t know what God really is do we?
And could we ever?
And could we ever?
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Not from this rock. But one day, face to face . . .
“Why are these people so afraid of God?”
They don’t want to be held accountable for their actions. So they try to make their problem go away by pretending that He does not exist.