Refer to Last Title But This Is The Second Half of Blog Post #7/8

     I've personally done a lot of thinking of creator vs. science based on what I read in this book, as well as others. What i find so profound is how he begins the book with an imediate slam on religion
 "At the end of the lecture, a little old lady in the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'And what is the tortoise standing on?' 'You're a very clever young man, very clever,' said the old lady 'but the tortoise is all the way down!"(Hawking 1)

      I feel that he is deliberatly trying to make an example of the the shortcomings of religion  in places where modern science clearly prevails. This makes it seem as if religion is for the "crazies" of the world, and has no place in modern society. Stephen Hawking does not believe in god himself, and has made his views public on many occasions.


      Stephen Hawking has made his views about god public on several occasions. This is just one, which aired on the Discovery Channel as a Curiosity. On a seperate occasion, Stephen Hawking produced a report on god that aired on Channel 4 News which aired on September 2nd 2011 where he tryed to disprove the existence of a god by useing the theoretical framework of M-theory
Now, Stephen Hawking may feel that is there was a god, he would not have been born with MS. This is where I feel he draws his scientific inspiration from, and has become his overall goal; to disprove the existance of a god. in almost every book that I have read where he is either a main author or co. author, the book becomes more about how science and god conflict with each other. In his book The Grand Design, Stephen Hawking says that: "Creation myths all attempt to answer the questions we adress in this book: Why is there a universe, and why is the universe the way it is?"(Hawking 124) He feels that there is no need for a god, and that if there was, he or she would not have let the human race become so out of controle. One final quote that I feel sums the situation up is one from his book The Universe in a Nutshell next to this picture:

"By the year 2600 the worlds population will be standing shoulder to shoulder and the electricity consumption will cause the Earth to glow red-hot." (Hawking 159)

Hawking, S. W., and Leonard Mlodinow. A Brief History of Time. 10th ed. New York: Bantam, 2005. Print.

Hawking, S. W., and Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. New York: Bantam, 2010. Print.

Hawking, S. W. The Universe in a Nutshell. New York: Bantam, 2001. Print.

Simoni, Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti. God Created Man. 1511. Fresco. Sistine Chapel Frescos.