by Dhani Schimizzi

Created on: March 15, 2011

STEPHEN HAWKING: An Emperor Without Words

I was mildly amused to read that quadraplegic British scientist Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant minds of the New Millennium, now claims that the universe was not created by "God". His latest book "The Grand Design" (presumably his, since "God" is now -scientifically-speaking, of course- kaput!) goes hand-in-glove to make a forceful atheistic fist with another of its ilk "God Is Not Great", by Vanity Fair's starchild Christopher Hitchens.

Full disclosure: In all fairness I have not read either book, and I'm still hallucinating on Hitchens' title and could not get past it. In one sense he's right - the word "great" is a rather puny word to describe such an immense force as I imagine any god would possess, much less The Real Thing.

Maybe Christopher should have titled it: "God Is Not Strong Enough!" Or "God Is Not Loving Enough!" Those titles might have pulled me in as works of humor or insanity, for any laughing/sane mind in this fresh New Millennium who can get past the title "God Is Not Great" without a chuckle please raise your hand! (Write a Helium article.)

Rest assured atheists will now rejoice that they have "proof" after all, for what better mind to inform the human race that God is dead than Stephen Hawking? He writes:

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing."

Which is exactly the point I'm making here through mere high school logic, forget quantum physics: Hawking believes that "nothing" created the universe (!), thus confirming what I long ago concluded, namely, that atheists actually believe in "nothing".

I'll capitalize the word and give it a bit of dignity, after all, many brothers and sisters believe in it: "Nothing created you" is exactly what an atheist will tell you if asked.

Like that stinky four-letter word smeared on t-shirts in the 60s, Hawking believes that the law of gravity and all that follows it, including the Big Bang, just "happened"  - that we and the universe were accidents just waiting to happen and God had nothing to do with it, so why invoke Her, you little s-t! (T-shirt, get it?).

For a healthy antidote to this type of warped thinking (and brilliant minds can warp) read the oldie-but-goodie New Age thriller "There Are No Accidents" by Richard Hoepke.

I remain old-fashioned and still stick with Einstein, another brilliant scientific thinker of the previous millennium, who once wrote -I'm paraphrasing the master- "I only want to hear the thoughts of God, the rest are details."

Writers who believe in nothing have nothing to say, and are merely emperors without words. Black-hole manifestos such as "The Grand Design" and "God Is Not Great" are just that - nothing-details that can only tickle The Creator, and those readers who have faith that they are Effects of One Cause of this immense, limitless and grandly mysterious universe.

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