Thread: 'There is no God,' Stephen Hawking writes in final book

-Late physicist Stephen Hawking's final book was published Tuesday, and he doesn't fail to take on the big issues, including the existence of God.

"Do I have faith?" he writes in Brief Answers to the Big Questions. "We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is no God. No one created the universe, and no one directs our fate."

Hawking goes on to say that this realization made him decide belief in an afterlife was just "wishful thinking" and that "when we die, we return to dust."

But Hawking, who died in March at age 76, also saw a silver lining in what to some could be a bleak view. Humans live on in their influence, and in their children, he wrote.

Even though Hawking said he didn't believe in a personal God, if there was one, the scientist said, he had a question for Him.

If there were such a God, I would like to ask, however did he think of anything as complicated as M-theory in eleven dimensions," Hawking wrote.

M-theory is a theory in physics that unifies all consistent versions of superstring theory. It's probably not the question most other people would ask a Supreme Being, but then, Hawking was one of a kind.

In the book, Hawking answers other major questions, such as whether we can predict the future (in principle yes, in practice no), if time travel is possible (he can't rule it out), and if there's other intelligent life in the universe (yes)...

https://www.cnet.com/news/there-is-n...in-final-book/

He believes now.

Originally Posted by FireBrand

He believes now.

In the worst way.

Even his knees had to bow and his tongue confessed, that Jesus Christ IS Lord!!!

Originally Posted by Romans828

Even his knees had to bow and his tongue confessed, that Jesus Christ IS Lord!!!

Therein is the tragedy. The one time he finds himself able to stand, he must kneel to the Lordship of Christ and the SECOND death.

I get mixed emotions about Hawkins

On one hand I think why didn't you humble yourself and accept Christ and you would now have perfect health for eternity.
I feel sad he will never know health and freedom

Then I get upset he was so arrogant with his brilliant scientific mind that he assumed his intelligence didn't need to believe in a creator
He gave strength to the many atheists and evolutionists who don't want God. He is now receiving the wages of his arrogance and unbelief


Overall very sad

Scientists think they are very smart when they apply Occam's razor to everything there is. The simplest model for existence is that time and space self-exist and there is no need for a God. Everything here is now a product of random interactions between molecules, including the smart scientist himself and now that things have become sufficiently simple, the smart scientist has got it all figured out. His own mess, that is.

Originally Posted by Colonel

Scientists think they are very smart when they apply Occam's razor to everything there is. The simplest model for existence is that time and space self-exist and there is no need for a God. Everything here is now a product of random interactions between molecules, including the smart scientist himself and now that things have become sufficiently simple, the smart scientist has got it all figured out. His own mess, that is.

It takes a lot more faith to believe that than it does to believe in God as the creator. 'Believing' there is no God is an extreme exercise in intellectual dishonesty.

Originally Posted by GodismyJudge

Darkness abounds within them.

A quote by Richard Dawkins from their point of view...

Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist.

The essential idea of The Blind Watchmaker is that we don't need to postulate a designer in order to understand life, or anything else in the universe.

In reading his thoughts I get the sense he knew there is a God but despised the idea there was One in whom he rejected. You know, it's the old attempt at proving what he says doesnt exist.