If this Anti-Pope where any more open minded his brains would fall out. If he had any.
Stephen Hawking thinks he can know everything.
It is a self deception. We are limited creatures. It is impossible for us to know everything.
If he had integrity, he would acknowledge the potential of creatures who are less limited than we are.
a big big problem Atheists have is explaining where everything, including ...alas...Atheists, came from
the Big Bang theory is not only difficult to believe, but it is far far MORE difficult to believe than a God-creator
ALSO, IF we derived from a Big Bang, that theory STILL would not explain why there was a Big Bang.....in other words, the theory would explain WHAT happened but not WHY or for what purpose it occurred.......................
God might have used a Big Bang to create us, that is possible yes.....................but a Big Bang out of pure nothing and with nobody.noGod to cause or create or design or create it? that is far less believeable than God using a Big Bang (or some other method) to create us
Atheism falls down dead because it demands we believe in things far less likely, probable, credible, imaginable... than belief in God
And yet somehow the entire universe was compressed in to an infinitesimally small space. We know because computer models say so. The debate is over.
The big bang theory requires just as much faith as does God’s creation. The difference in the scientists like Hawking believe themselves to be the gods of this life. There are so many who’s arrogance will not allow them to admit that there is something they don’t know.
Science keeps on finding the intermediate steps between God and experience. But God is still behind it all.
Stephen Hawking: “I’m an atheist.” Cool. That’s what he might have said this week.
I admire Stephen Hawking and enjoy his books. He regularly writes about how God could have created the universe recently to make it look as though it appears 5,000 or 20,000 million years old. Interesting stuff.
Hawking visited JP II once or twice a year and always enjoyed the teasing. JP II: “You might be joining the Church soon.” SH: “You might be out of a job soon.”
Scientist: In the beginning, there was nothing but then for some reason, absolutely nothing decided to explode into something.
Religion: In the beginning, there was nothing, but then the hand of God created something out of nothing.
Scientists feel nothing can create something and God is not necessary. . .and scientists are supposed to be into logic and fact?
“What’s an atheist doing speaking at the Vatican?”
U didn’t get the memo? DIVERSITY !!
So how exactly does science explain the universe and all that is in it? How does science explain how life came from non-life? Saying that there was a Big Bang doesn’t explain what caused it. What is the convincing explanation Hawking claims?
What’s an atheist doing speaking at the Vatican?
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Because there is a communist fake Pope.
Who admires Islam as well.
Hey Stephen... please answer this: http://considertheprobabilities.com. Then we can talk.
This just about says it all!
2 Timothy 3 (KJV)
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.
9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their’s also was.
10 But thou hast fully known my doctrine, manner of life, purpose, faith, longsuffering, charity, patience,
11 Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.
12 Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
14 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
15 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
OK, Dr. Hawking, I'll give you the "Big Bang". I'll even give you the "Inflation" after the Big Bang (where your laws of science DIDN'T apply).
So, now tell me: What happened BEFORE the Big Bang?
Proverbs 14:12 - There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Hawking is one sloppy philosopher (the “Ph” in his “PhD”) if he imagines that science offers an explanation for existence.
Hawking is part of that new breed of scientist that aims to flatter an audience without intellectually challenging them.
Costs money to keep that fancy tech he depends on operating.
By the way, he’s lasted a darn long time with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, hasn’t he? Wonder what his secret is, that decades past the usually-fatal date of a progressive-onset, incurable degenerative neurological disease, he manages to not only survive, but still be capable of international travel and events.
Sorry Stephen, but the more reasoned opinion, supported by many of your same intellectual status in the community, is that the more science discovers the more compelling the case becomes for a transcendent creator. Each new big scientific discovery merely reveals another previously unknown layer of infinite complexity and apparent design. There are only two possibilities (1) that the universe had a beginning or a "creation event" and if so it had to have a creator or a "first cause". or (2) the universe is eternal and has always existed. But that explanation gets into all sorts of trouble with the physical laws of thermodynamics (among others) and the logical imperative that everything we are ever destined to become we have already become if we've been here an eternal amount of time. (Infinite absolutes always play hell with the laws of logic.) Given the incredible fine tuning of almost every physical aspect of the universe just to make life possible (the anthropic principle), the clear choice is number 1 with an eternal transcendent, intelligent force (God, if you will) acting as the first cause - the Creator.
Hawking may be great in his own field of physics, but when it comes to philosophy, he’s a nincompoop.