Posted on 10/17/2018 9:04:45 AM PDT by oh8eleven
God is not dead — he or she never existed in the first place, Stephen Hawking declared in his final book.
“There is no God,” the late theoretical physicist wrote in “Brief Answers to the Big Questions,” CNN reported. “No one directs the universe.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Ha - like the two gold fish having an argument about the existence of God.
The second one finally said: “Of course there’s a GOD. Who do you think changes the water?”
Without the wheelchair, he would be unknown to 98% of people
And that is the point of view of scientists who say that science is not a means to give us answers like an oracle, as it is a tool and method that we employ to get specidic results, but it is not a “machine” of its own. Science does not explain things, it is man who is to interprete results to explain.
Reminds me of Christopher Hitchens,I was asked to debate him in New York.I can only keep my cool for 10 minutes but has reinforcements.Just did not feel like driving to New York and staying over.I pray for him often.
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1558637-the-portable-atheist-essential-readings-for-the-non-believer
God wrote a book too.
Sad. That is all I can say. As his life went on, I couldn’t even look at anything about him. But as others have said, he knows now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgzwmOXrfaU
Are You Smarter Than This Kid?
William is 11-years old on why Stephen Hawking was wrong to conclude there is no god.
By now he knows if he was right or wrong.
I am a man of religious faith, but there have been times that I have wondered about it all. In those times, nature has always brought me back around. One time I was sitting on the back porch reading something on my cellphone, when a tiny insect landed on the screen. It was no bigger than the cross bar of the “t” of “at&t.” I watched it as it preened itself, tested out its wings, and eventually flew away. It reminded me of how all living things are miracles, wonderfully created. I cannot conceive that all of it, or any of it, even this tiny insect, came into being by mere chance. This tiny thing was God’s witness to me.
‘a complete, almost brain-dead idiot at the very same time.’
just curious, what informs you that a person expressing a disbelief in a supernatural condition is a ‘brain-dead idiot’...
I personally challenged the existence of God until He was made plain to me, but I was honest enough to not start by saying “there is no God” but by asking “if there is God then where are you, because right now You do not exist to me”.
There is a fine line between prosecuting and honestly stating one’s lack of choices but to ignore God for a time until further notice...
Which painfully happened because unless one has a real taste of how God was persecuted by being persecuted oneself, there is no corroboration possible.
I think Hawkins has a delusion of persecution on his wheel chair. He has no idea how unfair he is and how people who believe in God enabled him to be treated fairly with a sense of fairness.
Lol ... good stuff.
God: There is no Stephen Hawking.
If you read the article about his “concerns” he didn’t realize the thing he denied was the thing he was looking for. Kinda “funny” how often that seems to be the case. We have this built in desire for God yet some of us thumb our noses at it all the while sensing there’s a hole in our lives.
I don’t believe God gets bored. At least we do not see anything indicates that in His revelation of Himself.
Here is a Oxymoron: He may be one of the most intelligent IDIOTS of all time.
He has that right now ... and he is using it to beg the Lord Jesus to send someone back from the dead to warn his family ...
He has been converted from physicist to evangelist ...
I think his condition made him bitter- and i mean what unsaved person wouldn’t be? (even saved people can become bitter if something that bad happens). I think perhaps, in Steven’s mind, He got stuck on the common unsaved objection that “If there is a God, why is there so much suffering?” Many unsaved folks are turned off to the concept of God because they think a good God wouldn’t allow such suffering. They tend to think that even if there is evil in the world, that God would be big enough to forgive everyone, and not allow suffering if He really did exist. They tend to think man is worthy of forgiveness because ‘man is essentially good’- (Really, propel that think this think they are owed eternity in heaven, if there is one, because they have earned it by ‘being more good than bad’- they tend to think that if there is a God, He owes them)
Sadly, Steven appears to have allowed his bitterness over his condition to convince him that God couldn’t exist- A Truly brilliant person, would at the very least, have considered Pascal’s wager, and as such, never dared declare there ‘is no God’, but have thought, as yo did, that IF there is a God, He did not make His presence known to him, and been open to the idea that God could exist- Sadly the Evil One convinced Steven with a lie- and Now Steven knows w2hat a terrible terrible mistake he made if he did indeed die without accepting Christ as Savior- -
Stephen Hawking was not smart enough to know with certainty whether the universe is directed.
He was smart enough to know he wasn't smart enough so his pronouncements are merely that which he desires to be true.
One could observe that both the believers’ and nonbelievers’ beliefs are based on their faith in what they believe.
[[all the while sensing there’s a hole in our lives.]]
That is the Holy Spirit bearing witness to everyone that God is infact real so that noone is without excuse for rejecting God- It takes a lot of effort to ignore the witness of the Holy Spirit- it’s not easy ignoring it, but for those determined to not submit- they believe it’s ‘worth the effort’- sadly
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