Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
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Ahaa,now I know why you made Lucifer your God,by faulty logic,because it seems you know what it is and so good at it,because your father Satan is also good at it.
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kuna muda lakini ukikaa ukifikiria kwa kina lazima uwe na doubt
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it takes me one week, kusoma yote mr kiranga na mr behaviourist nataka kuwaelewa aseeeeee pamoja na Emma. Mimi am pure roman catholic kwa sababu nimekulia mazingira hayo hadi nimesoma shule zao mpaka o level
kiukweli kuna point kiranga huwa unaziweka sema watu waanacha kujibu hoja wanajibu ambacho hakipo
kuna muda lakini ukikaa ukifikiria kwa kina lazima uwe na doubt
kiranga naweza kusema hoja yako ni its like benefit of doubt
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All scientific findings are just approximations of reality ,for science to prove a thing ,environment should be controlled first,science can't explain precisely a cosmos that is forever in cyclical activity ,Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
By Brandon Specktor, Senior Writer | October 17, 2018 04:23pm ET
Stephen Hawking's Final Book Says There's 'No Possibility' of God in Our Universe
In a new book that was published posthumously, Stephen Hawking, who died in March, wrote that it is impossible for God to exist in our universe.
From his desk at Cambridge University and beyond, Stephen Hawking sent his mind spiraling into the deepest depths of black holes, radiating across the endless cosmos and swirling back billions of years to witness time's first breath. He viewed creation as a scientist, and when he was called to discuss creation's biggest puzzles — Where do we come from? What is our purpose? Are we alone? — he answered as a scientist, often to the chagrin of religious critics.
In Stephen Hawking's final book "Brief Answers to Big Questions," published Tuesday (Oct. 16) by Bantam Books, the professor begins a series of 10 intergalactic essays by addressing life's oldest and most religiously fraught question of all: Is there a God? [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]
Hawking's answer — compiled from decades of prior interviews, essays and speeches with the help of his family, colleagues and the Steven Hawking Estate — should come as no surprise to readers who have followed his work, er, religiously.
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"I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science," Hawking, who died in March, wrote. "If you accept, as I do, that the laws of nature are fixed, then it doesn't take long to ask: What role is there for God?"
In life, Hawking was a vocal champion of the Big Bang theory — the idea that the universe began by exploding suddenly out of an ultradense singularity smaller than an atom. From this speck emerged all the matter, energy and empty space that the universe would ever contain, and all that raw material evolved into the cosmos we perceive today by following a strict set of scientific laws. To Hawking and many like-minded scientists, the combined laws of gravity, relativity, quantum physics and a few other rules could explain everything that ever happened or ever will happen in our known universe.
"If you like, you can say the laws are the work of God, but that is more a definition of God than a proof of his existence," Hawking wrote.
With the universe running on a scientifically guided autopilot, the only role for an all-powerful deity might be setting the initial conditions of the universe so that those laws could take shape — a divine creator who caused the Big Bang to bang, then stepped back to behold His work.
"Did God create the quantum laws that allowed the Big Bang to occur?" Hawking wrote. "I have no desire to offend anyone of faith, but I think science has a more compelling explanation than a divine creator."
Hawking's explanation begins with quantum mechanics, which explains how subatomic particles behave. In quantum studies, it's common to see subatomic particles like protons and electrons seemingly appear out of nowhere, stick around for a while and then disappear again to a completely different location. Because the universe was once the size of a subatomic particle itself, it's plausible that it behaved similarly during the Big Bang, Hawking wrote.
"The universe itself, in all its mind-boggling vastness and complexity, could simply have popped into existence without violating the known laws of nature," he wrote.
That still doesn't explain away the possibility that God created that proton-size singularity, then flipped the quantum- mechanical switch that allowed it to pop. But Hawking says science has an explanation here, too. To illustrate, he points to the physics of black holes — collapsed stars that are so dense, nothing, including light, can escape their pull.
Black holes, like the universe before the Big Bang, condense into a singularity. In this ultra-packed point of mass, gravity is so strong that it distorts time as well as light and space. Simply put, in the depths of a black hole, time does not exist.
Because the universe also began as a singularity, time itself could not have existed before the Big Bang. Hawking's answer, then, to what happened before the Big Bang is, "there was no time before the Big Bang."
"We have finally found something that doesn’t have a cause, because there was no time for a cause to exist in," Hawking wrote. "For me this means that there is no possibility of a creator, because there is no time for a creator to have existed in."
This argument will do little to persuade theistic believers, but that was never Hawking's intent. As a scientist with a near-religious devotion to understanding the cosmos, Hawking sought to "know the mind of God" by learning everything he could about the self-sufficient universe around us. While his view of the universe might render a divine creator and the laws of nature incompatible, it still leaves ample space for faith, hope, wonder and, especially, gratitude.
"We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe," Hawking concludes the first chapter of his final book, "and for that I am extremely grateful."
Originally published on Live Science.
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And to think that everything should have a begining is just expression of how punny our minds and imagination Are.
Existence of all knowing God can't be explained within context of limited ignorance of physics laws,as for physics to stand ,we have sometimes to IGNORE the real happenings (Facts that we don't comprehend,facts that makes math impossible to solve) ,in order to comprehend to what we study .
As for Energy physics has failed to explain the source of Energy , we only know that we can't create energy nor destroy it but where does energy come from ? physics is mute
God (whatever the name you assign) is surely present but out of our scope of understanding
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So, you are saying, the existence of an all knowing God can't be explained by science, and therefore must be accepted?
At least science is investigating and verifying.
Are you disputing the importance of investigation and verification?
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Just try to comprehend and mull deeply!
Mkuu tried to extend pitch of conclusive speculations, where many atheists are imbibed in!
Most of you rely on science , believing that science can attempt everything while not! There still setbacks science can’t curb all out
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Science says science does not know everything, so that is a non issue.
That is why science has a process of evaluating things and verifying, to know the truth.
If you disprove Einstein today, you may very easily be awarded with a Nobel prize.
That is a good thing.
If you say Science does not know everything, what are you comparing science with?
What system of knowledge knows everything and has answers to every question?
If investigation and verification is still in progress ,why draw a conclusion by nullifying his existence?
Shouldn't you say I don't know at least ,so to sound sensible ?
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It is possible to know this is a wrong answer, even if investigation is in progress and the right answer is unknown.
Example.
If you know that, in base 10 math, the square root of 2 must be less than 2, and somebody tells you that, the square root of 2 is 10, you can know that this is a wrong answer and eliminate that wrong answer, while looking for the right answer.
The concept of an all knowing, all loving, all capable God who made this world that permits evil has some very basic contradictions that makes logically thinking people eliminate it as a possibility.
So, a self contradicting idea like this can be ruled out as an answer, even as verifications are still being made.
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Haya ni maneno ya muhubiri.
You may be interested in listening to a response to Stephen Hawking from a professor of Mathematics from Oxford University, who also believes in God. You can get this debate from YouTube: search for Stephen Hawking's argument destroyed by John Lennox.
Scientific knowledge is associated with Dissection,
For a scientist to know human internal organs, dissection is a must ,so to say, scientific knowledge has limitations,
And when it comes to human entities that can't be probed by five senses ,entities that can't be knifed,science becomes mute
For science needs witnessing,
and the questions comes, who said EVERYTHING SHOULD HAVE A BEGINNING AND THE END? Why not otherwise
And who says THIS is EVIL and THIS is NOT EVIL?= HUMAN MIND,
Why not say THIS is LIFE and that's how it was meant to be?
Life has always been a cyclical activity ,it doesn't stop at GOODNESS, it's a rotation that takes you from extreme pain to extreme pleasure ,the purpose is to learn and acquire wisdom, so PAIN isn't basically a bad thing ,it KNOCKS some sense in