Stephen Hawking was, without a doubt, one of the greatest minds of our age. He was a theoretical astrophysicist. His pioneering work on black holes redirected our understanding of the beginning and of the coming end of the universe……..based on secular humanism. He was an atheist. He rejected the existence of God, eternal life, paradise, and hell. I don’t presume to understand the science that he worked with. I will say that he built a cohesive explanation of the beginning of the universe, uniting the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity. This was a great leap forward in reconciling these theories. In a word, Hawking was a champion of secular humanism.
But Hawking’s work was based on the study, manipulation, and integration of multiple theories and assumptions.
Here is the problem. If you take twenty theories and assumptions and weave them into a cohesive “theory of everthing”, this does not prove any one of the theories to be true. Each theory must stand on its own. Each theory must be true……independent of the others. In fact, if any one of the theories that you are relying on is untrue, the whole house of cards comes tumbling down.
Cosmologists like Hawking are working to clean up the problems in the theories that explain the universe. They are actively searching for a workable “theory of everything”. They have spent hundreds of billions of dollars. They have written countless books.
They have not found it.
Why?
The scientific community bases its analysis on one central assumption.
That assumption is that there is no creative intelligence behind it all. That might be true. In fact, it must be true or Hawking and the others are chasing a mirage. But, this is an unproven assumption……..quite possibly an unprovable assumption. Is it any wonder that an analysis based on an unproven assumption has not yielded a solution?
The entire body of work…….of Hawking and other cosmologists is a theoretical framework built on a fundamental assumption that is unproven. They don’t talk about this problem. In fact, they ridicule anyone who does. There is no place in academia for a scientist who utters the heresy:
God did it……..God is smarter than Stephen Hawking.
To even entertain that possibility is to commit career suicide in the field of academic cosmology. The scientific community would rather entertain the idea that the 400 billion chemical bonds in the human genome were assembled by random accident than to consider the possibility of an intelligent designer.
So……I’m going to say it…….out loud.
God did it.
Prove me wrong.
Prove me wrong………because your fate hinges on this simple question…….and you must get the correct answer, because the cost of being wrong is unthinkable.
Did God do it……….or is it all a giant accident?
“I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”
David’s prayer of thanks for creation, Psalm 139: 14, ESV
“I am a fabulous accident…….I rule the universe.”
The foundational prayer of secular humanism.
“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.”
Stephen Hawking