God isn’t something needed to explain the whole world, states Stephen Hawking. If you asking Hawking, or his co-author of “The Grand Design”, Leonard Mlodinow, God is just something created by humans. The Grand Design has touched off a debate on the struggle between science and religion. Gravity is what created the world rather than God if you ask Hawking. Science isn’t the way to take a look at God and the world, suggest anybody opposed to Hawking.
Stephen Hawking vs. Sir Isaac Newton
Stephen Hawking’s new book, “The Grand Design,” squares off against the beliefs of Sir Isaac Newton, as outlined by The Guardian. 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 feels the universe was created by the force of gravity. Hawking believed in God in 1998 when his book became bestseller. This book, reports the Guardian, is called “A Brief History of Time”. In that book Hawking wrote that he accepted the role of God in the creation of the Whole world. ”If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we should know the mind of God,” he explained then.
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 world couldn’t are formed from chaos. Hawking said that humans simply created a God in their own image to have somebody to have a personal relationship with. He said this in an interview with ABC in June. That seems impossible, 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.
Hawking nevertheless needs to explain some things
Hawking’s position that the galaxy naturally was created was called a “classic agnostic response” by BBC’s William Crawley. Everyone who has faith has the right to disagree with Hawking. Hawking is the only person who does not need God to understand the universe. 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 scientists that don’t agree with Hawking. They believe he is wrong. 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 said, “and it is scientific research that will lose out.”
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
