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I was going to continue my post on “Terror!” as I did end it rather abruptly (it was getting on a bit late) but I’m afraid the second part of Terror and the nature of terror will have to wait as today, I came across a rather juicy article in the national newspaper “The Daily Mirror”
It would seem Professor Stephen Hawking has been at it again! Not content with angering the UFO and Extra-terrestrial life enthusiasts around the globe with his assumption (read about it HERE) that we should avoid contact with other Alien races as they might very well have hostile intentions, he has gone a step further (a leap or two in fact!) and decided to proclaim that God did not create the universe as we know it.
In his latest book “The Grand Design” Mr Hawking writes:
“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God”
It would seem Mr Hawking has changed his mind since his 1988 bestseller “A Brief History of Time” in which he attributed the creation of the universe to a “Higher-being” – but I am not just reiterating a news story though – we need to question the reasons why Mr Hawking has changed his mind so dramatically over the past 20 years.
Also, the incredibly funny “Knee-jerk” reaction by Lewis Ayres (Professor of Theology at Durham University) who says, and I quote:
It would seem Professor Stephen Hawking has been at it again! Not content with angering the UFO and Extra-terrestrial life enthusiasts around the globe with his assumption (read about it HERE) that we should avoid contact with other Alien races as they might very well have hostile intentions, he has gone a step further (a leap or two in fact!) and decided to proclaim that God did not create the universe as we know it.
In his latest book “The Grand Design” Mr Hawking writes:
“Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. It is not necessary to invoke God”
It would seem Mr Hawking has changed his mind since his 1988 bestseller “A Brief History of Time” in which he attributed the creation of the universe to a “Higher-being” – but I am not just reiterating a news story though – we need to question the reasons why Mr Hawking has changed his mind so dramatically over the past 20 years.
Also, the incredibly funny “Knee-jerk” reaction by Lewis Ayres (Professor of Theology at Durham University) who says, and I quote:
“Hawking is a modern atheist. He thinks that suddenly science comes along and says here are the answers and explanations, so therefore we don't need God.
But smart Christians do not think that if you can explain things by laws of science then God does not exist.”
But smart Christians do not think that if you can explain things by laws of science then God does not exist.”
Although Mr Hawking did neither confirm or deny the existence of God, leaving Lewis Ayres and his deliciously funny knee-jerk reaction (“There is too a God!”) looking slightly un-progressive within the religious community.
All Mr Hawking said was that the Universe created itself, not that “The universe created itself, therefore, God does not exist.
It would seem creationism VS science is still a war raging on behind polite smiles. Couldn’t science merely be the answer to “How God did it” and not “Why we exist”? I personally think “Smart Christians” should be a little more open-minded towards the scientific community.
I myself am agnostic. Religion is a fascinating subject though and one I would like to explore more in future articles.
Until that time, I will leave you with the raging debate that Mr Hawking has set out. What do you think? God created Gravity? Right?
Check out tomorrow for a more in depth look at the nature of terror and how it affects not only individual people but society.
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