Hawking feels like God is unnecessary when it comes to the understanding of the whole world. Hawking wrote a book with Caltech physicist, Leonard Mlodinow, called “The Grand Design” that suggests God is just a human contrivance. There is a constant debate between science and religion the Grand Design discus. Gravity is what created the galaxy rather than God if you ask Hawking. Science is not the way to check out God and also the galaxy, suggest anyone opposed to Hawking.
Stephen Hawking vs. Sir Isaac Newton
The Guardian reports that Stephen Hawking’s new book, “The Grand Design,” is against Sir Isaac Newton beliefs. Newton believed opposite of Hawking. He believed that God did design the whole universe. The whole world 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”. In that book Hawking wrote that he accepted the role of God within the creation of the World. “If we discover a complete theory,” he wrote, “it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God.”
Hawking bets on science to win
Hawking is considered a successor of Newton. This is because he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London. In “The Grand Design,” he writes that he started to doubt Newton’s belief that the galaxy could not have formed from chaos in 1992, when a planet was discovered orbiting a distant star. During a June interview with ABC News, Hawking said humans created God in their image as a being with whom they can have a personal relationship. That seems extremely hard, he said, given that human life is insignificant and accidental within the vast scale of the universe. Hawking explained his stance to ABC News. He said Science will always win between science and religion.
Hawking has some explaining to do
Hawking’s position that the whole world emerged naturally is dismissed as a “classic agnostic response” by William Crawley at the BBC, and people of faith have a right to disagree. Hawking is the only person who doesn’t need God to comprehend the galaxy. That is the position of Crawley. There is not anything in “The Grand Design” proving there is no religious part within the galaxy. There are no facts proving the theory. Other scientists also disagree with Hawking. Fox News interviewed Professor George Ellis who believes differently than Hawking in that if it did come down to religion or science, which it would not, religion probably would win. Ellis is the president of the International Society for Scientific research and Religion. “A lot of individuals will say, OK, I choose religion then,” he said very evidently. “It is science that will lose out.”
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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