‘Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools..’
‘A fool says in his heart, there is no God.” Why is it that a such a “brilliant” man violates one of the most basic rules of logic? One cannot logically assume a universal negative about the existence of God:
1. In order to say, “there is no God”, one has to know all of the universe and everything in it, in other words, be all knowing.
2. But if one really does know that there is no God, then he must be all knowing.
3. If one is all knowing, he himself would have to be God.
4. So if you take Hawking’s statement at face value, there actually is a God, it’s Hawkings himself.
So you see, one cannot ever logically be an Athiest. They can be an Agnostic, and while sadly not knowing for certain whether God exists, at least be logically consistent with their view.