For Stephen Hawking, God is not necessary to understand the universe. 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 believes that gravity is what made it so the galaxy might be created. He thinks no God might be a part of this. Any person opposed to Hawking’s ideas will say that understanding God’s role in the galaxy does not come through scientific research.
Is Stephen Hawking or Sir Isaac Newton right?
Stephen Hawking’s new book, “The Grand Design,” squares off against the beliefs of Sir Isaac Newton, according to The Guardian. Newton stated that God intended the whole universe. The universe isn’t something Newton believed could exist on its own. It couldn’t have just randomly come together so well. Hawking’s beliefs say the universe was able to be created as a result of gravity. . In that book Hawking wrote that he accepted the role of God within the creation of the World. “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 is considered a successor of Newton. This is because he was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London. In 1992, a planet was found orbiting a distant star. This is when, says Hawking, the first doubt to Newton’s idea of the whole world 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. That seems extremely hard, he said, given that human life is insignificant and accidental within the vast scale of the galaxy. Hawking explained his stance to ABC News. He said Science will always win between science and religion.
Everyone needs an explanation from Hawking
Hawking’s position that the 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. Hawking is the only person who doesn’t need God to comprehend the world. That is the position of Crawley. There is no real reason in “The Grand Design” to say there isn’t a religious explanation to the creation of the galaxy. There are numerous 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 individuals 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
