I can understand why he might rejerct God, considering his medical condition.
If humans practiced the evolution that people like Hawking preach, then someone like himself would have been left at the wayside to die... animals have no use for sick or crippled members of their own species.
And of course, there are plenty of very sick people who embrace God with faith that makes almost all of us blush... so what makes Prof. Hawking so special?
I can’t comprehend living life as he does. There but for the grace of God go I, and I might very well reject God like Hawking does if I did.
That said, we know a young man in Hawking’s same shoes who, now in his 30s, is not a genius like Hawking, but possesses normal intelligence inside a completely uncooperative body. He has for life been confined to a wheelchair, unable to speak or feed himself or dress himself or do anything without the 24 hr care of his parents or others. He “speaks” (computer audio) via slight hand signals for single letters as his mother types. As a teenager, this man was taken to a Billy Graham crusade, became a believer, and managed to go home and lead his parents to faith as well.
Can you imagine? His parents, upon whom he relies for everything, can say that their physically helpless son led them to the most important thing of all, in spite of his limitations.
Hawking should meet this fine man.
The poor bastard is trapped in his own body. I am reminded of Donavan’s Brain, a B-movie of long ago, in which a wealthy tycoon’sbrain was taken from his body and kept alive in a jar. He became a creature of pure will, and malice. In short, deprived of human sensibility went mad. Then to hell. Utter separation.
The poor bastard is trapped in his own body. I am reminded of Donavan’s Brain, a B-movie of long ago, in which a wealthy tycoon’sbrain was taken from his body and kept alive in a jar. He became a creature of pure will, and malice. In short, deprived of human sensibility went mad. Then to hell. Utter separation.
It is pretty common for scientists to dismiss things that require “faith.”
Consider the past treatment of scientists by the church. I know the church is not god. I get that. But, the suggest to represent God on earth.
Scientists require “facts” that can be examined and reproduced. They understand statistics and know that miracles may be explained away by random chance.
I don’t agree with them. But that is MY choice. I respect their choice. I simply do not agree with it. All the proof I need is in the faces of my children, and in the trees and grass outside my window. THOSE are too perfect to be the result of random chance. But what do I know? I almost flunked basic calculus.