Why Prof Stephen Hawking is wrong.
On a programme on the Discovery Channel, which is one of my favourite channels as I am a doco addict, Prof Stephen Hawking stated "You can't get to a time before the big bang because there was no 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. For me, this means there is no possibility of a Creator because there is no time for a Creator to have existed."
Now I love physics and Stephen Hawking, I read a Brief history of Time when I was 14yrs old and have been enamored with Physics ever since. However on this matter I think Hawking is wrong and seems to have missed the point entirely.
Weirdly it is precisely the basis of his argument against the creator that leads me to believe that there is a Creator, The big bang. The creation of the universe out of nothing and the creation of time itself at that same moment is what forces me to believe in a Creator of the Universe. I have tried very hard not to believe in a creator, I was raised Atheist so it would not have been hard to just continue on that path. It was reading the works of Hawking, Sagan and Kaku etc... that led me to a belief in a Creator.
You see my personal belief is that God, YHWH, Allah, the Great Maker or what ever we want to label it, is non corporeal and non linear and exists outside of time-space (the Universe) as we know it. The Creator is that what made time-space but does not exist within it and has no likeness to anything with in it as all that exists within time-space is the creation. Thus the Creator is entirely separate and distinct from the creation. In fact as I see it the Creator has to be completely unlike anything within creation or there is just no point.
For me the creator of the Universe is unlike anything our tiny human minds could ever really comprehend, as already stated it is non corporeal and non linear, but it is also not an entity, nor made of matter or anti matter or dark energy. This is what led me to Islam as when I read in the Qur'an, Sura Al Iklas 112:4 'There is no likeness unto God'. I thought wow they actually get it ! Islam also teaches that the Creator is unlike anything within the creation as it is what created it. This is what I said before and had come to this conclusion on my own before having any knowledge of Islam or even being Baptized a Christian!
It was the thought that the big bang happened out of nothing and that time-space came into being at that moment that put me on the path to try and discover an understanding of the Creator. I started with Christianity, being baptized as an adult, then a study of comparative religion bought me to Islam.
God, YHWH, Allah, Great Maker... it is one and the same and created the Universe with the big bang. There does not need to be a time for space-time to be created in as the Creator does not exist within space-time ! Ok thats sound a little like a circular argument but my understanding of the Creator being unlike anything that exists within creation means that time is irrelevant to the creator as it exists outside of time itself. Everything that we know as the laws of physics, all the chemical processes that led to life etc... is what the Creator made at the beginning of time.
Prof Hawking seems to have forgotten the widely held belief amoungst many faith traditions that God is omnipresent. This belief is easy to understand when we accept that the creator is external to space-time thus in a non-linear reality, time and place are irrelevant.
Peace
KJ :)
Now I love physics and Stephen Hawking, I read a Brief history of Time when I was 14yrs old and have been enamored with Physics ever since. However on this matter I think Hawking is wrong and seems to have missed the point entirely.
Weirdly it is precisely the basis of his argument against the creator that leads me to believe that there is a Creator, The big bang. The creation of the universe out of nothing and the creation of time itself at that same moment is what forces me to believe in a Creator of the Universe. I have tried very hard not to believe in a creator, I was raised Atheist so it would not have been hard to just continue on that path. It was reading the works of Hawking, Sagan and Kaku etc... that led me to a belief in a Creator.
You see my personal belief is that God, YHWH, Allah, the Great Maker or what ever we want to label it, is non corporeal and non linear and exists outside of time-space (the Universe) as we know it. The Creator is that what made time-space but does not exist within it and has no likeness to anything with in it as all that exists within time-space is the creation. Thus the Creator is entirely separate and distinct from the creation. In fact as I see it the Creator has to be completely unlike anything within creation or there is just no point.
For me the creator of the Universe is unlike anything our tiny human minds could ever really comprehend, as already stated it is non corporeal and non linear, but it is also not an entity, nor made of matter or anti matter or dark energy. This is what led me to Islam as when I read in the Qur'an, Sura Al Iklas 112:4 'There is no likeness unto God'. I thought wow they actually get it ! Islam also teaches that the Creator is unlike anything within the creation as it is what created it. This is what I said before and had come to this conclusion on my own before having any knowledge of Islam or even being Baptized a Christian!
It was the thought that the big bang happened out of nothing and that time-space came into being at that moment that put me on the path to try and discover an understanding of the Creator. I started with Christianity, being baptized as an adult, then a study of comparative religion bought me to Islam.
God, YHWH, Allah, Great Maker... it is one and the same and created the Universe with the big bang. There does not need to be a time for space-time to be created in as the Creator does not exist within space-time ! Ok thats sound a little like a circular argument but my understanding of the Creator being unlike anything that exists within creation means that time is irrelevant to the creator as it exists outside of time itself. Everything that we know as the laws of physics, all the chemical processes that led to life etc... is what the Creator made at the beginning of time.
Prof Hawking seems to have forgotten the widely held belief amoungst many faith traditions that God is omnipresent. This belief is easy to understand when we accept that the creator is external to space-time thus in a non-linear reality, time and place are irrelevant.
Peace
KJ :)
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