For Stephen Hawking, God isn’t necessary to comprehend the whole world. To Hawking, God is a human contrivance, as outlined by excerpts of his latest book, “The Grand Design,” co-authored with Caltech physicist Leonard Mlodinow. There have always been controversies between science and religion. The Grand Design talks about some of these. Gravity is what created the world rather than God if you ask Hawking. People who disagree with Hawking say science, being limited by laws of nature for instance gravity, is an inadequate approach to comprehending the role of God within 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 believed opposite of Hawking. He believed that God did design the whole universe. Newton couldn’t believe the galaxy could have just randomly been created. Hawking is opposed to this. He believes the universe was created by the force 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. When he wrote that book, God still was part of the Whole world in his mind. “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 was one of Newton’s successors, holding the prestigious title of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London. In 1992, a planet was found orbiting a distant star. This is when, states Hawking, the first doubt to Newton’s idea of the universe being formed in chaos, came to him, he claims in “The Grand Design”. Hawking said that humans simply created a God in their own image to have someone to have a personal relationship with. He said this in an interview with ABC in June. He also said it is extremely hard thinking about human life was a complete incident and does not have any significance. Science will win between science and religion, ABC News reports Hawking saying.
Hawking has some explaining to do
Hawking’s position the universe emerged naturally is dismissed as a “classic agnostic response” by William Crawley at the BBC, and people of faith have a right to disagree. Crawley explains that God is necessary for everyone but apparently Hawking when it comes to comprehending the whole world. “The Grand Design” gives no reason, he said, to rule out a religious explanation for the physical laws of the universe. You will find numerous scientists that disagree with Hawking also. 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 explained, “and it is science that will lose out.”
Additional 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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