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 science and religion that have been discussed. The law of gravity, not God, is what made the creation of the universe possible, Hawking says within the book. Anyone opposed to Hawking’s ideas will say that comprehending God’s role in the world does not come through scientific research.
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. It seemed extremely hard to Newton the whole world could have formed spontaneously. Hawking’s beliefs say the whole world was able to be created because of gravity. Hawking wrote the book “A Brief History of Time” in 1988 that was a bestseller where, the Guardian explains, he took an opposite approach to God. In that book Hawking wrote that he accepted the role of God within the creation of the Galaxy. “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.”
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. He explained in his book “The Grand Design” that he first doubted Newton in 1992 when finding one more planet orbiting a distant star, meaning the whole world couldn’t are formed from chaos. 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. He also said it is impossible considering human life was a complete accident and does not have any significance. Hawking explained his stance to ABC News. He said Science will always win between science and religion.
Hawking needs to explain
Hawking’s position 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. To Crawley, Hawking is only speaking for himself when he says God is not necessary for understanding the universe. “The Grand Design” gives no reason, he said, to rule out a religious explanation for the physical laws of the universe. You will find many scientists that disagree with Hawking also. Fox News spoke to the president of the International Society for Science and Religion, Professor George Ellis, who explained that if the choice was only science or religion, religion would likely win. “A lot of people will say, OK, I choose religion then,” he explained, “and it is scientific research that will lose out.”
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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
