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Stephen Hawking, the famed scientist and best-selling author (I personally think this man is smarter than Einstein), says the following about the limits of science in the foreword to his wildly popular book, A Brief History of Time:
“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”
“What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe? The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?”
“If we do discover a complete theory [regarding the origins/nature of the universe], it should in time be understandable in broad principle by everyone, not just a few scientists. The we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people, be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we should know the mind of God.”
To summarize, Hawking is saying that science can only answer the question of how the mechanisms of universe work; as for the question of why (i.e., what caused the Big Bang), he is keenly aware that no amount of scientific discoveries can answer that question. He stops just short of saying “It must be God who caused all this.”
Well, the Bible has declared this all along, simply and clearly. Its own “foreword,” the very first line of the Bible, says: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. [NIV, Gen1:1]“
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August 3rd, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Professor Hawking quoted as follows:
“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”
The theory of Spontaneous creation comes about due to the discovery of the creation of particles that could be produced through vacuum by means of quantum theory. However, the experiment in the past has shown that the particles could only exist awhile after its creation and its life could not prolong for more than half an half and it ultimately vanishes. It is erroneous to use this experiment to conclude that spontaneous creation could create something out of nothing in which the created things could last long. Unless the experiment has shown that the created substance could prolong its life more than a year, it is then rational to use it to support there could be spontaneous creation prior to the creation of universe. As the existence of particles through spontaneous creation through the experiment in the vacuum could not even prolong their life more than a year, how could spontaneous creation be occurred prior to the creation of this universe that could create living things that could last even up to this modern days?
Thus, Stephen Hawking’s theory for spontaneous creation that could create something out of nothing could not be acceptable especially particles that had been created through experiment could not last forever.
Stephen hawking also mentions that because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. As we know, as the earth revolves around the sun, the gravity is also accompanied with the earth to revolve around the sun. Even if the earth would cease its movement, gravity would cease its movement simultaneously. Thus, the gravity and the earth cannot be separated. As gravity and the earth cannot be separated, it is erroneous to assume that gravity could exist at the collapse of stars or prior to the formation of this universe as supported by Stephen Hawking. As gravity and the earth cannot be separated, it is erroneous to support Stephen Hawking’s theory that gravity could exist prior to the creation of universe despite there was no object to be found at that time.
Isaac Newton was the founder of the theory of gravity and Stephen Hawking develops the theory through gravity. Isaac Newton supported that gravity attaches big objects, such as, the earth. To stay away from big objects, would cause lesser or no gravity. Yet Stephen hawking’s theory contradicts Isaac Newton’s principle that gravity would remain at the absence of object. The worse is that Stephen Hawking supports that gravity could exist even at the absence of the creation of objects prior to the formation of this universe. Thus, Stephen Hawking’s theory has been found to have contradiction with Isaac Newton’s principle.
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