Stephen Hawking feels like God is unnecessary when it comes to the understanding of the galaxy. 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 that the Grand Design discus. Hawking states God isn’t what created the universe but gravity is. Scientific research is not the way to check out God and also the galaxy, suggest everyone opposed to Hawking.
Stephen Hawking or Sir Isaac Newton beliefs
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. Newton couldn’t believe the universe could have just randomly been created. Hawking’s beliefs say that the whole world was able to be created because of gravity. The Guardian said Hawking’s current stance on God is a reversal of the position he took in “A Brief History of Time,” the 1988 bestseller that made him world famous. In that book Hawking wrote that he accepted the role of God in the creation of the Universe. He explained, “If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God.”
Hawking believe in science
Hawking was one of Newton’s successors, holding the prestigious title of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London. In “The Grand Design,” he writes that he began to doubt Newton’s belief the galaxy could not have formed from chaos in 1992, when a planet was found orbiting a distant star. 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 believed that humans are totally insignificant. He said that humans were an incident and unimportant to the universe. Hawking explained his stance to ABC News. He said Science will always win between science and religion.
Hawking needs to explain
People of faith, for instance William Crawley at the BCC, disagree with Hawking’s idea of the whole world naturally being created by calling it a “classic agnostic response”. Hawking is the only person who doesn’t need God to understand the world. That is the position of Crawley. “The Grand Design” gives no reason, he said, to rule out a religious explanation for the physical laws of the universe. There are scientists that do not agree with Hawking. They feel he is wrong. 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 people will say, OK, I choose religion then,” he explained, “and it is scientific research 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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