Yesterday (2nd Sept) The Times (London) published an extract from Stephen Hawking's new book, The Grand Design. Hannah Devlin's article begins as follows:

Modern physics leaves no place for God in the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.
Just as Darwinism removed the need for a creator in the sphere of biology, Britain's most eminent scientist argues that a new series of theories have rendered redundant the role of a creator for the Universe.

In his forthcoming book, an extract from which is published exclusively in Eureka, published today with The Times, Professor Hawking sets out to answer the question: "Did the Universe need a creator?" The answer he gives is a resounding "no".

Far from being a once-in-a-million event that could only be accounted for by extraordinary serendipity or a divine hand, the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, 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," he writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going," he finds.

With all due respect to Mr. Hawking, there is a serious and simple flaw in his argument.  He says, "the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."  But when Hawking says, "nothing," he doesn't mean NOTHING.  Rather, he begins his theory with the assumption that matter itself was preexistent. 

Without matter there is no spontaneous anything.  But even if matter were preexistent, the mathematical probability of a spontaneous big bang is so small that it defies both reason and logic. 

A couple of years ago, I read a book by Dr. Richard A. Swenson, More Than Meets the Eye.  Chapter after chapter reviews different aspects of nature which completely contradict the possibility of evolution being anything more than a fanciful fantasy for those who have willfully chosen to deny the reality of the God who is there.

Recognizing the reality of creation is the first step to being able to recognize Truth.  And without the ability to recognize Truth, there is no ability to rule with justice.  Therein lies the problem with the Empire.  Those who deny Reality and Truth will never be anything more than tyrants.  And tyranny is the only manner of rule which the Empire knows.

From Solitude,
David O Jones