Hawking feels like God is unnecessary when it comes to the understanding of the world. Hawking has his own opinion on God which is shown in his book “The Grand Design” which was authored also be Leonard Mlodinow, Caltech physicist. He thinks that God is just something for humans that they need. There is a constant debate between science and religion that the Grand Design discus. Hawking believes that gravity is what made it so the world could be created. He thinks no God might be a part of this. Everyone opposed to Hawking’s ideas will say that understanding God’s role in the universe doesn’t come via scientific research.
Stephen Hawking or Sir Isaac Newton beliefs
Sir Isaac Newton beliefs are challenged in “The Grand Design.” This is Stephen Hawking’s new book. Newton believed the universe was designed by God. It seemed impossible to Newton that the galaxy could have formed spontaneously. Hawking is opposed to this. He feels the galaxy 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 within the creation of the Universe. He explained, “If we discover a complete theory, 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 was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge in London, which technically makes him one of Newton’s successors. In 1992, a planet was found orbiting a distant star. This is when, states Hawking, the first doubt to Newton’s idea of the whole world being formed in chaos, came to him, he states in “The Grand Design”. During a June interview with ABC News, Hawking said humans created God in their image as a being with whom they can have a personal relationship. He also believed that humans are totally insignificant. He said that humans were an incident and unimportant to the universe. When it comes to science and religion, Hawking told ABC News, science will win.
Hawking nevertheless requires to explain some things
Hawking’s position that the whole world emerged naturally is dismissed as a “classic agnostic response” by William Crawley at the BBC, and individuals of faith have a right to disagree. Hawking is the only person who does not need God to understand the galaxy. That is the position of Crawley. There isn’t anything in “The Grand Design” proving there is no religious part within the universe. You will find no facts proving the theory. There are scientists that don’t agree with Hawking. They think he is wrong. Fox News interviewed Professor George Ellis who believes differently than Hawking in that if it did come down to religion or science, which it wouldn’t, religion probably would win. Ellis is the president of the International Society for Science and Religion. “A lot of people will say, OK, I choose religion then,” he said really clearly. “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
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