Jakarta Post
The world’s most famous physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking has declared that God does not exist.
Hawking joins the opinion of several other world-class scientists like Richard Dawkins, Peter Atkins, James Watson, Victor Stenger and many others who deny the existence of God in the name of the latest advancements in physics, biology and other scientific domains.
The so-called “New Atheism” (championed by Richard Dawkins) sees God as a delusion, a by product of the mind of superstitious and scientifically uneducated people.
“Because there is a law like gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing … Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists and why we are here”. This is the conclusion of The Grand Design, Hawking’s latest book.
Hawking’s assertion is based on the predictions of his famous M-theory. But is Hawking’s theory really an ultimate explanation? Has the grand master of physics checkmated the grand master of the universe? Let’s examine things in more detail.
The author seems quite confused in explaining his argument. He is directed to our pages of Religion as well as Atheism and Agnosticism to find the true insight to this hypothesis.
Two of my articles about Stephen Hawking and others relevant to the issue of theism versus atheism
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/12/religion-and-science/stephen-hawking-has-a-change-of-heart-god-did-not-create-universe
The anesthesia of familiarity: There should be a Creator for this universe:
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/12/religion-science/the-anesthesia-of-familiarity-there-should-be-a-creator-for-this-universe
A challenge for Dawkins: Where did carbon come from?
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/12/religion/a-challenge-for-dawkins-where-did-carbon-come-from
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/05/religion/stephen-hawking-there-is-no-heaven-its-a-fairy-story
Photosynthesis: deserving of our awe or ridicule?
http://www.themuslimtimes.org/2011/12/religion/photosynthesis-deserving-of-our-awe-or-ridicule