God Is Necessary
I recently finished Stephen Hawking’s book, The Grand Design . With one of the most intelligent scientific minds of our generation, Hawking has the ability to make modern physics almost reachable to those of us who find it interesting but well beyond our intellectual abilities. In his last popular book, A Brief History of Time , he discussed the role that God may or may not have had in the creation of the universe, but in The Grand Design he makes the more definitive statement, “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.” In interviews about the subject, Hawking clarified his point, "One can't prove that God doesn't exist," he stated, "But science makes God unnecessary…The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator." I greatly respect Dr. Hawking and am grateful for the extraordinary work he has done, as well as the opportunity I’ve had to expand my mind reading his words. In add...