On March 14, 2018 Dr. Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76. He was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, the same position held by the greatest scientist ever, Sir Isaac Newton, way back in 1663. Dr. Hawking has received numerous awards and been featured in a few TV shows. He was a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He had a very accomplished life for someone expected to die by the age of 30 due to the debilitating Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), also commonly named Lou Gehrig’s disease.
He was also a published author. His books were related to his life’s work in the area of physics and often contained a consistent theme – a claim that there is no God, with some science to support his claim. In his book “The Grand Design” Dr. Hawking concluded “Because there is a law such as 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, why we exist.” Prior to this statement Dr. Hawking’s spends most of the book reviewing the advances in science throughout history. Then came that conclusion.
It did not take long for other scientists to respond to Dr. Hawking’s conclusion. Dr. John Lennox, from the same university as Hawking points out that if gravity was the cause of the universe forming then where did gravity come from? Also, gravity works by drawing pieces of matter together, like the earth towards the sun and the moon towards the earth. For gravity to work there must have been matter, but the Big Bang created the matter from nothing, so there was nothing for the gravity to work on. Dr. Hawking does not address either of those obvious, gapping holes in his theory.
Only a few months before his death the CERN physics research centre in France and Switzerland conducted an experiment designed to help show how the Big Bang, the evolution of the universe happened. The Big Bang theory states that when matter was created there was an equal amount of antimatter. The problem is that our universe today is composed of almost all matter. There is very little antimatter. When matter and antimatter come into contact they annihilate each other producing a photon, a tiny bit of light.
Large Hadron Collider. Credit: https://home.cern/images
The experiment would show that a few more particles of matter compared to antimatter were created by the Big Bang. Thus even though most particles destroyed each other, the few left over were enough to create all the matter in the universe. The equipment could detect a difference of one particle in 1.5 billion. And the results were … there was an equal number of antiprotons and protons. No difference! No extra particles left over to be used to create a universe.
The result caused the lead researcher in this project, Christian Smorra to state “All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist.” A better statement, in my opinion, would have been “All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe created by a Big Bang does not actually exist.”
Yet, here we are. We do exist! Every day more and more evidence in all fields of science point us farther and farther from evolution by random chance as being our origin. More and more evidence points to a creator, to God.
Despite Hawking’s brain power he failed or chose to ignore the vast amount of evidence that Jesus Christ was a real person who died and came back to life, which we celebrate at Easter. That Jesus Christ is God. Dr. Hawking failed or chose to ignore the vast evidence that life on Earth occurred recently and that evidence from every field of science is contrary, points away from, evolution. Even his field, physics, has huge problems with the fine tuning of the universe for life on our planet. I wonder if he believed in God but was angry with God due to his ALS condition and thus was trying, in his own mind, to get rid of God.
Billy Graham Credit: CNN.com
Just 3 weeks before Dr. Hawking died another world figure died – Mr. Billy Graham. Both were known around the world. Both have met with world leaders and leaders in their respective fields (Theology and Physics). Mr. Graham was not a scientist by title but he did do research work. He did not specifically research evolution but he did hold the theory that there is a creator, a God. His research and life work was based on the Bible.
Two great men, in their own ways. Both now dead. Their life work finished. One drew mankind away from God and one drew mankind towards God. If Hawking is right, both are now dead and done. If Graham is right, if there is a God, both have now stood before him to answer for how they spent their lives. I suspect one was told ‘well done my good and faithful servant’. The other was not!
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