Stephen Hawking takes on God

[wyguy]

Stephen Hawking takes on God

Critics dismiss his new book as 'lightweight speculation'

With his new book "The Grand Design," retired Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking appears to have further bolstered his reputation as a latter-day Charles Darwin, but some in the scientific community are not impressed.

The book "is a vehicle for putting across lightweight speculation that anybody could imagine," asserts MIT-educated physicist Thomas P. Sheahen in a paper provided to WND.

Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow, a Caltech physicist, claim there was no need for a creator, as the law of gravity assures that the "universe can, and will, create itself from nothing."

"If the author names were reversed, Mlodinow first, everyone would ignore this book," Sheahen writes in "A Physicist Looks at The Grand Design.'" "Only Hawking's fame boosts it to totally undeserved prominence."

Among physicists, Hawking is esteemed because of his contributions to cosmology, including breakthroughs on black holes, and he has drawn public admiration for courageously continuing his work despite suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Published by Bantam Books, the 208-page work posits that this "spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist."

"The folly of Hawkings' claim is pretty obvious," E. Calvin Beisner, national spokesman for the Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation in suburban Washington, D.C., told WND. "The law of gravity is, of course, not nothing, and consequently the universe's spontaneous self-creation wouldn't be a creation from nothing anyway."

Beisner argued further that "the law of gravity is a law of physics, affecting the interaction of physical, material things."

"There is no law of gravity where there are no physical things," he reasoned.

In "The Grand Design," Hawking and his co-author take on not only religion but philosophy as well.

"Philosophy is dead," the authors claim. As it has "not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics, and scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge."

The discovery of other solar systems, which has picked up since the early 1990s with new radio-telescopes and other technology, helped frame Hawking's contention that the earth and its neighbors are not of divine origin.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions, the single sun, the lucky combination of Earth-sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," Hawking and Mlodinow write.

The authors rely on the concept of a "multiverse"

[Gerioke]

Hawking must be bored

[Guest]

No God No Matter

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Genesis 1:1

No Matter No Gravity

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Ephesians 4:17-18

No Faith No Jesus

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8-9

And That Is A Grave Matter Indeed

He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him. John 3:36

[MorningGlory]

While I admire Hawking for his intellect and his contributions to the world, taking on God NEV ER has a good outcome.

[Guest man]

Can you imagine what it would feel like to stand before God, fully healed of your infirmities, only to be hurled into outer darkness?

"There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

[georgedrw81]

Can you imagine what it would feel like to stand before God, fully healed of your infirmities, only to be hurled into outer darkness?

"There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

We should pray.

Blessings

[enoob57]

I think this is where this verse fits

Matt 13:12

12 For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.

NKJV

Love Steven

[sheya joie]

I'm surprised he would name the book The Grand Design, since the word design simply cries out (to me, at least) that a design has a designer.

[OneLight]

Last night I watched Hawkins on TV about how he believed everything came into existence. To him, it is all about us being lucky because of the imperfection of everything. He mentioned luck many times.

[Gerioke]

Last night I watched Hawkins on TV about how he believed everything came into existence. To him, it is all about us being lucky because of the imperfection of everything. He mentioned luck many times.

Is luck scientific?