Hawking Breaks Atheist Rules

According to professor Stephen Hawking, God didn’t create the universe. Instead, nothing created everything. However, Hawking has violated the basic laws of science. In an extract of his latest book, The Grand Design, was published in Eureka magazine in The Times, the professor said:

"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."

It is embarrassingly unscientific to speak of anything creating itself from nothing. Common sense says that if something possessed the ability to create itself from nothing, then that something wasn't nothing, it was something--a very intelligent creative power of some sort.

Hawking has violated the unspoken rules of atheism. He isn't supposed to use words like "create" or even "made." They necessitate a Creator and a Maker. Neither are you supposed to let out that the essence of atheism is to believe that nothing created everything, because it’s unthinking. It confirms the title, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, but You Can’t Make Him Think. Nor should an atheist speak of gravity as being a "law," because that also denotes the axiom of a Law-giver. Laws don’t happen by themselves. But look at how careless the professor was, with his, "The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe."

It seems that Professor Hawking has changed his mind about the need for God. Back in 1988, in his book A Brief History of Time, he said, "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason — for then we should know the mind of God." Einstein said that he wanted to know the mind of God. Both men could have easily found the mind of God and through it have seen how we were created--"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth," something of which we were reminded when the first manned mission to moon read from Genesis chapter one. We need to read it again.