Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- God did not create universe, Stephen Hawking argues
- World-famous physicist makes arguments in new book "The Grand Design"
- Hawking: Given existence of gravity, "universe can and will create itself from nothing"
- He understands feeling of Isaac Newton that God did "create" and "conserve" order
When I first heard of this book, I was angry because I knew that God exists and I was mad at myself because I (as a banker, not a physicist) couldn't prove the theory incorrect. Heck, I was even mad at the book's author! The reality is that science has always tried to understand the universe. Scholars are blessed with curiosity and in their efforts they make conclusions that explain the "hows" of the way things work. Their only limitation is that they are merely human and as such cannot possibly understand all the "whys" of the universe.
Without a Cambridge education, I went back to one of the truths I have learned over the past few years. God is the Alpha and the Omega (Rev 22:13), He controls the course of world events, He removes kings and sets up other kings, He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the scholars (Dan 2:21).
With this in mind, I can find peace with Hawking's theory because his theory whether it is correct or not doesn't really matter. The universe has been created. It's here. We live. Done. And the truths I know about God supersede new and old theories from scholars about our creation. For a long time Newton seemed correct in that there had to be an impetus that started the universe and that impetus was God. Maybe for some time going forward Hawking will seem correct, and after him another scholar will claim he knows what created the universe....all I know is that my God was there at the beginning and he'll be there at the end. He was there through Galileo, Newton, Hawking, and he'll be there after all the kings and scholars we have recorded are long gone.
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