On January 7, 2012, the National Post published an article about Stephen Hawking who recently celebrated the seventieth anniversary of his birth. The article included Stephen Hawking’s answers to several questions posed by viewers of the BBC. According to the article, Stephen Hawking said that the origin of the universe can be explained by the laws of physics without any need for miracles or divine intervention. Quoting the article,” These laws predict that the universe was spontaneously ...
Since no one knows the origin of the universe, I don’t think that “creationists” delude themselves any more than atheists do about this. Identification of the cause of the universe has so far not been achieved. To say “We don’t know” - an agnostic statement - is more reasonable than saying definitively that there is no God. The world and universe consist of matter and energy existing in time and space and functioning within certain operating parameters such as cause and ...