In his book “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking co-authored with physicist Leonard Mlodivow its themes are woven by threads that God did not create the universe.
This thinking is foreign to premier scientist like Isaac Newton – whose great minds spans across mathematics and physics.
Hawking who has been working, since 1974, to marry Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and quantum theory – announced stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics – which he held since 1979, a position once held by Newton.
He attributes the existence of the universe to the “Big Bang” explaining that “a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant,” according the Times newspaper.
In his acclaimed book “A Brief History of Time” he wrote: "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we should know the mind of God." The mind of God? One author says “The greatness of God is to us incomprehensible.”
What this 21st centaury physics fail to appreciate is that the more discoveries scientist are making, the more theories they are coming up with lenders theories such as the “Big Bang” obsolete, unbelievable at best.
Indeed, it will take more faith to believe in scientific explanation of the origin of the universe and how we are here than it will take to believe in what the Bible says that God is the creator of the universe and us too.
The more science is unveiling, how the universe is complex, the more they confirm that “In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.” Yes, every discovery ever made, every theory ever formulated, everything that has ever been innovated is attributed to a particular name(s). Why should such great scientist turn around to speculate about the universe?
It takes the candid humility of premier scientist like Newton to reconcile science which is based on facts that can be proved by theories and in labs and the word of God which calls for faith.
The Psalmist thus wrote: “He (God) spake, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.” Hence one writer adds: “With Him (God) who could thus call into existence unnumbered worlds, how long a time would be required for the evolution of the earth from chaos?”
While Harking writes: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist." But this genius needs to take time to listen to this author, who says: “Rightly understood, both the revelations of science and the experience of life are in harmony with the testimony of Scripture to the constant working of God in nature.”
When Harking says that: "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going." He should pause to accept that: “The mighty power that works through all nature and sustains all things is not, as some men of science claim, merely an all-pervading principle, an actuating energy.”
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