God isn’t something needed to explain the world, states Hawking. Hawking wrote a book with Caltech physicist, Leonard Mlodinow, called “The Grand Design” that suggests God is just a human contrivance. Part of The Grand Design explains theories about scientific research and religion that have always been discussed. Hawking claims God is not what created the whole world but gravity is. People who disagree with Hawking say science, being limited by laws of nature such as gravity, is an inadequate approach to understanding the role of God in the galaxy.
Beliefs of Sir Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking
Sir Isaac Newton beliefs are challenged in “The Grand Design.” This is Stephen Hawking’s new book. Newton stated that God designed the whole world. The universe is not something Newton believed could exist on its own. It could not have just randomly come together so well. Hawking says gravity made the spontaneous creation of the universe possible. Hawking believed in God in 1998 when his book became bestseller. This book, reports the Guardian, is called “A Brief History of Time”. He nevertheless believed in God’s role within the world then. He even wrote about this within the book. ”If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God,” he explained then.
Science will win, says Hawking
Hawking is considered a successor of Newton. This is because he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London. In 1992, a planet was found orbiting a distant star. This is when, says Hawking, the first doubt to Newton’s idea of the galaxy being formed in chaos, came to him, he says in “The Grand Design”. Hawking was interviewed by ABC in June stating that humans created a God that they can have a personal relationship with in their image. He also said it is extremely hard thinking about human life was a complete incident and doesn’t have any significance. Science will win between science and religion, ABC News reports Hawking saying.
Hawking needs to explain
People of faith, for instance William Crawley at the BCC, disagree with Hawking’s idea of the world naturally being created by calling it a “classic agnostic response”. To Crawley, Hawking is only speaking for himself when he says God is not necessary for comprehending the whole world. There isn’t anything in “The Grand Design” proving there is no religious part in the galaxy. There are no facts proving the theory. You will find numerous scientists that disagree with Hawking also. Professor George Ellis, president of the International Society for Science and Religion, told Fox News that Hawking offers a false choice between science or religion in which science may be the loser. “A lot of individuals will say, OK, I choose religion then,” he said, “and it is science that will lose out.”
Further reading
The Guardian
guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator
ABC News
abcnews.go.com/WN/stephen-hawking-god-create-universe-question-day/story?id=11542128
BBC
bbc.co.uk/blogs/ni/2010/09/god_hawking_and_the_universe.html
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