Posted on 08/04/2011 2:02:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stephen Hawking is squaring off with God, saying that God did not have a hand in creating the universe and that the "laws of science" can explain how the universe created itself from nothing.
In the premiere episode of The Discovery Channels latest series "Curiosity," set for Sunday at 8 p.m. ET, Hawking takes on the question: "Is There a Creator?"
Hawking, who has done extensive research on several contentious topics such as time travel, parallel universes and black holes, says that God was not necessary for the creation of the universe. He proposes that it is possible that the universe created itself out of nothing.
Because these 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 in his recently published book, The Grand Design.
During the episode, Hawking talks about experiments in which sub-atomic particles have been observed to appear from nowhere. He feels this is proof that the universe is self-creating, as the Big Bang started out as a particle smaller than an atom.
Hawking says it is likely the universe popped into existence without violating the known laws of Nature.
He uses his book to detail how discoveries by people have fleshed out the origin and structure of the universe, from Vikings observing eclipses to cosmology, the field dedicated to the study of the universe.
I believe the discovery of these laws is mankinds greatest achievement, he said.
Once upon a time, Hawking didnt rule out Gods involvement in the creation of the universe, stating in his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, that if a complete theory was ever discovered, "we would know the mind of God."
Now, through his new book and corresponding "Is There a Creator?" episode, he attempts to dispel the theory posed by Sir Isaac Newton that the creation of the universe was set in motion by God.
The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we cant understand, or was it determined by a law of science. I believe the second, Hawking writes in The Grand Design.
If you like, you can call the laws of science God, but it would be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.
Among other topics to be addressed on the "Curiosity" series are I, Caveman, by "Supersize Me" director Morgan Spurlock and "Why Sex is Fun," by Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Who you gonna believe? Maria or Stephen Hawking?
lectures, beliefs, and tv aside, I understand that hawking has the personality of a first class jerk.
that has nothing to do or not do with science, it is all him.
Stephen is wrestling with God.
I posit that if the universe was not created, then we are created by a nothing, a nil, but somehow the same nil is kind enough to have given Hawkins a wheelchair and let him, his intellect and his spirit expound, out of cursory curiosity and respect. Is it by chance that he was given an audience? Is he the special result above others? Or is specialness derived from one’s humbler and thus deeper vision of things. This is where this is getting at in terms of narcissism.
From today you cannot see tomorrow. From yesterday you could not see today. But tomorrow happens despite not being able to see even the least of it, today.
Let’s see... hmmmm Maria or Mr. Potter...
May God have mercy on his soul.
What is the origin of these particular laws of science. Why are there laws of science rather than nothing? Why do these laws of science have the nature that they have rather than some other nature?
I wonder, do ya suppose that the ‘going smaller and smaller’ until it is learned that there is a limit to how small a something can be is what sends minds like Stephen’s into these odd little rages? I mean, Stephen doesn’t yet want to admit that a smidgen of time and a pinch of energy is a photon. How can he see the start of it all if he still hasn’t come to grips with creation being the start of dimensions time and space? We only sense what has already happened. We don’t even sense a rpesent event. What circuits would it blow in Stephen’s mind if he were shown a future event?!
So the chicken that didn't exist yet laid the egg it was hatched from ... right?
Hey Steve ... gfy, asshole.
I think you are correct and it is fascinating to watch.
Perhaps one day Mr. Hawking will return from his travels in distant lands.
That is the very definition of a miracle, isn't it?
And what causes the fluctuations of these subatomic particles?
I was going to quote Billy Preston:
“Nothing from nothing leaves nothing”
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God”.
here’s what I don’t get with these scientist atheists...
Suppose they are right, that the other 90%+ of humans are idiots and there is nothing else.
In any case, the remote chance of an after-life is their only chance to have the answers of the universe, or have the possibilities of seeing what’s on other planets or to see back in time what the dinosaur age was really like or in Mr. Hawking’s case, to walk again.
They spend millions of dollars on the tiny remote chance that they discover aliens on another planet, but go completely against something that anyone can know absolutely yes or no for sure.
“That is the very definition of a miracle, isn’t it?”
Great post!!!!!!!!!!
Hawking says it is likely the universe popped into existence without violating the known laws of Nature.
Wow. For many people, belief in God requires too much of a leap of faith. But believing that the universe just “popped into existence” requires a much, much, much longer leap.
Of course the universe is capable of creating itself out of nothing. Especially if nothing is not quite the condition before creation.
Does the so called law of gravity precede creation? If so it is immutable. The only general understanding we have of God is His immutability. Is he calling God gravity? Or is gravity merely the single facet of God Hawking is capable of acknowledging?
;-)
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