Have you ever heard of Stephen Hawking? He is a theoretical physicist and applied mathmetician at Cambridge University in Oxford, England. He was born in 1942(on Elvis' birthday, by the way) and plans to retire sometime in 2009. He has written several books, all about science. When it comes to quantum gravity and all things that are hard to understand, God gave him a wonderful mind. He has discovered all kinds of things regarding space as well. Right now, he is a quadripligic, dying of ALS. Why am I writing all this, you ask?
I read a book he wrote, called "The Theory of Everything". It is a set of speeches regarding black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. In his chapters on the big bang, he describes in very much detail, how he thinks it happened. It is way over my head. What I did understand is how delicate a procedure it was. The universe had to be a specific temperature for it to happen. So many things had to be just perfect for our universe to form as it did, so that it could sustain life. Hawking even made a comment one time that it pointed to a Creator, not chaos, to occur. As I read, I thought of several things:
*It takes a lot more faith to believe in the big bang, than a master Creator
*Only God could have made a universe to precisely and perfectly
*I won't rule out that God could have used a big bang to make the Earth (the precision of the facts Hawking presented were astounding) (who am I to limit how God may choose to do something?)
*The more I hear about science and its specifics, the more I don't see how scientists can deny God's existence.
I read a book he wrote, called "The Theory of Everything". It is a set of speeches regarding black holes, quantum gravity, and cosmology. In his chapters on the big bang, he describes in very much detail, how he thinks it happened. It is way over my head. What I did understand is how delicate a procedure it was. The universe had to be a specific temperature for it to happen. So many things had to be just perfect for our universe to form as it did, so that it could sustain life. Hawking even made a comment one time that it pointed to a Creator, not chaos, to occur. As I read, I thought of several things:
*It takes a lot more faith to believe in the big bang, than a master Creator
*Only God could have made a universe to precisely and perfectly
*I won't rule out that God could have used a big bang to make the Earth (the precision of the facts Hawking presented were astounding) (who am I to limit how God may choose to do something?)
*The more I hear about science and its specifics, the more I don't see how scientists can deny God's existence.
In his book, Mr. Hawking comments that he does not believe in a God...well, he isn't sure if he does or not. He seems to be agnostice. Sadly, I think I will begin praying for his salvation....he is at the end of his life, and I don't want him to end up in Hell with Carl Sagan. Join me in prayer.
Think about that...
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