The Grand Design
On a macro level, the grand design is the world - the massive mountain tops, the biggest swimming pool where even the largest of sharks feel tiny, and on and on. On a micro level, it is who I am, what I am. All of this points to the question: if there is a grand design, who is the grand designer?
I have been amazed by the writings of a famous physicist, Dr. Steven Hawking, whose views on how the universe was formed has changed over the last decade or so. In his recent book "The Grand Design," Hawking says, "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."
My response to Hawking is: Define nothing first before using nothing as subject. I've heard Dr. Ravi Zacharias quote someone else's definition of nothing as, "Nothing is what rocks dream about." Now, let us think back to what Hawking is trying to say. Let's say we talk about the law of gravity. Is it nothing, too? If it's something, then who thought about and defined the law of gravity? Who even conceived of such a notion?
If "why we exist" is a matter of spontaneous creation, you and me are reduced to accidents. If we are accidents, then whatever we say and do cannot be absolute. Instead, it's a matter of chance. With that in mind, all Hawking's conclusions and statements cannot be absolute, either.
Chesterton wrote, "The problem in disbelief in God is not that someone ends up believing in nothing, but that they end up believing in anything." This is very true. As days go by, I see people trying hard to believe in anything but God for the creation of the universe and mankind. Any possible tangible explanations give them a kick and the opportunity to explode or create anti-God theories, even when there are so many questions that brilliant minds over time have no clue whatsoever how to answer.
Thanks to people like Hawking, we are given the room to think about what they've said and affirm all the more reason to believe that "The Grand Design" indeed has a grand designer. No amount of nothing could create this design. No matter how hard one tries to explain it away, there will always be that missing link if you exclude God out of the equation.
Even as we read and think may God give us the wisdom to be able to stand up for what we believe. Blessings.
I have been amazed by the writings of a famous physicist, Dr. Steven Hawking, whose views on how the universe was formed has changed over the last decade or so. In his recent book "The Grand Design," Hawking says, "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."
My response to Hawking is: Define nothing first before using nothing as subject. I've heard Dr. Ravi Zacharias quote someone else's definition of nothing as, "Nothing is what rocks dream about." Now, let us think back to what Hawking is trying to say. Let's say we talk about the law of gravity. Is it nothing, too? If it's something, then who thought about and defined the law of gravity? Who even conceived of such a notion?
If "why we exist" is a matter of spontaneous creation, you and me are reduced to accidents. If we are accidents, then whatever we say and do cannot be absolute. Instead, it's a matter of chance. With that in mind, all Hawking's conclusions and statements cannot be absolute, either.
Chesterton wrote, "The problem in disbelief in God is not that someone ends up believing in nothing, but that they end up believing in anything." This is very true. As days go by, I see people trying hard to believe in anything but God for the creation of the universe and mankind. Any possible tangible explanations give them a kick and the opportunity to explode or create anti-God theories, even when there are so many questions that brilliant minds over time have no clue whatsoever how to answer.
Thanks to people like Hawking, we are given the room to think about what they've said and affirm all the more reason to believe that "The Grand Design" indeed has a grand designer. No amount of nothing could create this design. No matter how hard one tries to explain it away, there will always be that missing link if you exclude God out of the equation.
Even as we read and think may God give us the wisdom to be able to stand up for what we believe. Blessings.
Comments
I also think that Hawking's idea of creation thus leads human to think that there is also moral absolutes because human are happened by chance and requiring no responsibility for what we say or do. And much of the impacts follow.
Keep it up bro,
Andrew