‘I’m not afraid’: What Stephen Hawking said about God,
his atheism and his own death
In the 90s, I was watching a documentary, by Stephen Hawking, titled ‘The Cosmos’. It was awesome! It had many beautiful pictures of our universe, taken from our Hubble telescope. Hawking talked of the ‘big bang’ happening 13.8 billion years ago and the stages of evolution. All very interesting.
All of a sudden, in the video, Hawking is seen at the Vatican. Hawking is in full assault of the Catholic Church. The documentary shows Hawking with shadows of bars, from a window, and they are making him out to be persecuted by the Church, for his 'scientific' beliefs. Where on earth did this come from? I, a scientific Creationist, was insulted and hurt, by this aggressive, atheist attack on our God.
It seems Hawking spent a great deal of time in his life, running over to the Vatican, and he was not, it seems, seeking the salvation of his soul.
Neils Bohr (Father of Quantum Theory)
"It is meaningless to assign Reality to the universe in the absence of observation; in the intervals between measurement, quantum systems truly exist as a fuzzy mixture of all possible properties"
Verses
Albert Einstein
"I'd like to think the moon was there even when I wasn't looking at it." (Realism)
In Quantum Mechanics (the study of subatomic particles), there are two lines of thought. Neils Bohr sees the universe as not existing when man is not looking at it. This is a very Creationist viewpoint. Then you have Albert Einsteins ‘Realism’, where he believes we are missing something about the actions of subatomic particles.
In the double slit experiment, subatomic particles are in superposition wave state, where they are in all possible places, with all possible properties. It is not until man observes/measures subatomic particles, that they materialize into a specific physical particle, in a specific place. Scientists describe it as the ‘universe’, which chooses where, and with what properties, a subatomic particle will transform into, when man observes/measures it. We, God’s faithful, see it as God who chooses where, and with what properties, a physical subatomic particle comes into existence, when man looks at it. Subatomic particles are the building blocks of everything in the universe.
So why are atheist physicists so incredibly aggressive against what we Christians believe as God as our Creator? Please, atheist scientist, just let we faithful to Jesus, take Niels Bohr’s side, with his ‘Peek A Boo’ universe, a universe which does not exist when man is not looking at it, and be at peace with one another.