In the very revealing video linked at the bottom of this page, the brilliant mathematician John Lennox refutes the assertions by atheists like the late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins' contention that our universe's existence required no Creator. Lennox earned his doctorate in mathematics from Cambridge University, and then earned a second and third doctorate from Oxford University and Cardiff University, respectively.
Before Stephen Hawking died, his last public statement echoes what we ALL should wonder about. As he encouraged us to "remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet" and to "wonder about what makes the universe exist." How interesting, as he clearly believed that SOMETHING caused the universe to exist - although he would spend his professional life denying it required a Creative intelligence behind it. In fact, in his famous book, The Grand Design, the very title acknowledges that the universe DOES reveal elements of design. But what or WHO designed it?
Hawking, much like evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, has argued for a logical absurdity - that is, their assertions that gravity, amongst other laws, could have allowed for the universe to have created itself. And, as we've all heard, Big Bang cosmology theorizes that there was NO time, space or matter before the Big Bang event. Of course, like Einstein came to believe, the Big Bang required a cause, as it was a beginning - one which requires a BEGINNER. And that is why Einstein became a theist who believed there was a Creator - if an impersonal one. But Hawking didn't believe the Big Bang was the very beginning - asserting other things continuously existed before the Big Bang. He said asking what was before the Big Bang was like asking "what is south of the South Pole." Of course, none of his nonsense belief offers scientific evidence, but rather - and ONLY - philosophical conjecture.
A widely heralded atheist, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins has, much like in Hawking's final public statement, pondered and recognized that the universe requires a cause, noting that, "Something pretty mysterious had to give rise to the origin of the universe!" And like Hawking, Dawkins, when speaking of a universes coming from "nothing," actually believes it came from SOMETHING! Dawkins differentiates the scientific understanding of "nothing" from the theological idea of "not anything." He has said that modern physics discusses the notion of "nothing" in terms of physical quantities - things like energy - or even the absence of space-time itself. And that such things are not the same as absolute non-existence of ANYTHING. Again, like Hawking, Dawkins has admitted that science cannot currently explain what happened before the Big Bang - or WHY it happened at all. And that is because science cannot test non-physical things - or ANYTHING it has no way of testing. And so, mere conjecture and theories about such things are impossible to PROVE!
It's worth emphasizing that, even if SOMETHING was eternal - like energy - it has no mind to create, plan, strategize, design, orchestrate, or so brilliantly assemble the astonishing building blocks of the cosmos with mind-boggling sophistication, order, great power, and precision - which INSTANTLY began at the beginning of the Big Bang. As for the noted laws of the universe - LAWS do not cause or create ANYTHING! Laws are but observations explaining HOW things work - but not WHY the work.
SEE THE VIDEO HERE - as Dr. John Lennox deconstructs the absurdities claimed by key atheists - as not only are their assertions scientifically unproven, but even philosophically and logically, their assertions are unsupportable.
Philip
