“We don’t say we’ve proved that God doesn’t exist.” Mlodinow says. “God may exist,” Hawking told CNN’s Larry King, adding, “but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.” “The ‘laws of gravity’ seem to be something other than nothing.”Īs the media frenzy spread from bloggers and tweeters to prime-time television, the authors countered that they never meant to claim that science proved that there is no God. For example, Barron says, the existence of the laws that caused the appearance of the universe must have predated the big bang. Mary of the Lake near Chicago, also complained that the book is philosophically naive. Barron, a theology professor at the University of St. Theologians were incensed, saying that the existence of a creator is by definition outside science’s domain. (An adaptation of the book appeared in the October Scientific American.) “It is possible to answer these questions purely within the realm of science, and without invoking any divine beings,” the authors wrote. The universe arose “from nothing” courtesy of the force of gravity, and the laws of nature are an accident of the particular slice of universe we happen to inhabit. Physics, the book states, can now explain where the universe came from and why the laws of nature are what they are. Has Stephen Hawking overreached? The publication in September of The Grand Design, a book the British physicist co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow of Caltech, raised hackles as some saw it as denying the existence of God based on scientific arguments.
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