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It’s no surprise that Stephen Hawking has rejected God as Creator.
The world-famous theoretical physicist has long rejected the notion of divine involvement in the universe.
But an even more exclusionary declaration has just been issued by Hawking.
His new book, The Grand Design, contends without reservation that God did not create the universe.
When I read an excerpt quoted in a newspaper article, I got the very clear sense that Hawking had departed from the classical Scientific Method that says do the research before declaring that theory is, in fact, reality.
Here is the excerpt:
“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,” Hawking writes.
I know that I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but as I read the above statement, it seems that Hawking is saying that the universe created itself even though it didn’t exist.
Hmmmm…..
The last time I checked, cooks prepared meals. The meals didn’t just poof into existence without ingredients and a recipe.
And even if they had, somebody would have had to decide when, where, how and to whom the poofing was to occur.
Creation is no accident.
The stuff needed to set creation’s process in order had to come from somewhere.
And, Mr. Hawking, who created gravity?
And who created the laws of physics? Of math? Of chemistry?
Spontaneous creation? What triggered that?
Who set the threshold that once enough non-created nothingness existed, then it would stop being “nothing” and start being “something,” Mr. Hawking?
In a 1988 book entitled A Brief History, Hawking acknowledged his real goal.
“If we discover a complete theory (for the origin of the universe) , it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we should know the mind of God,” he wrote.
Hawking said that a 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun compelled him toward the mission of disputing the idea that the Earth was carefully designed “just to please us human beings.”
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuromuscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
I don’t know why Hawking is so ambitious in his efforts to remove the idea of God from the universe’s origins. I also don’t know his view about “God” as it relates to history since the Big Bang.
I find it quite ironic, though, that he wrote earlier of his desire to know the mind of God, to have the emotional/mental thrill of placing human reason on par with the mind of a God that he didn’t want to acknowledge.
Perhaps you see the parallels between Hawking’s statement above and what Satan told Eve in the Garden of Eden.
I’m talking about that moment when Satan said God didn’t want her to eat the forbidden fruit because He “knew” that she’d have the mind of God if she did.
Eve believed Satan rather than God. She believed that rejecting God’s authority and disobeying His Word would display the ultimate triumph of human reason and that she’d discover the complete theory for all of her “Why?” questions.
Eve found out that she was wrong and paid for it with centuries of “Why didn’t I believe God?” regrets, I’m sure.
Of course, mankind has been paying the price of her rebellion and Adam’s rebellion ever since.
I pray for Stephen Hawking to realize his fundamentally illogical assertions and come to the realization that the universe makes no sense without a Creator.
Perhaps, the next time he enjoys a flavorful meal, he think about how the meal didn’t spontaneously create itself.
As always, I love you
Martin
