What did Hawking say caused the Big Bang?

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H Mboo, Am I to assume you do not have an answer as to “why” our loving God allows all the suffering to go on.
 
theories, theories, theories, there are lots of them, and most are irrelevant in relation to the trouble the human race is in
 
The question of what caused the Big Bang has not been solved. It has been asked since Aristotle arrived at the conclusion that there has to be an initial cause for an action; a first mover, and we cannot explain how something can come from nothing or how an action can come from nothing. We are getting a handle on how the universe works but we are nowhere near being able to explain how it began as before it began, there was nothing. So what caused the spark? Hawking claimed he was an atheist but acted as though he hated God. He made the audacious claim that he had solved the first mover problem posed by Aristotle but really only proving that intelligence does not override delusion, as his book merely furthers science and adds nothing to the discussion of Gods existence. Please pray for him.
 
I’ll give credit to Hawking for postulating that the laws of science breakdown in the Singularity/Big Bang. If a reputed physicist can say this, it leaves the door open for philosophy to say, in the same vein, that human reasoning too fails in the BB; and if so, it calls for a stop to pre-BB speculations, which is what JPII wanted.
If however, scientists insist on continuing speculating in the hope of arriving at that utopian ‘Theory of Everything’ then they are opening themselves to ridicule because its like trying to fly in the air with a vehicle fitted with submarine engines.
 
I don’t think the concept of “sin” is irrelevant to our problems, yet many people don’t even want to acknowledge it. Evil is indeed very evil. Yet Christ has overcome sin and to believe in Him is to bring us to the perfect place which God promised and you so desire. This is not a theory, it is faith.

Have you ever had your own thread about these concerns? I’m not trying to avoid your questions but though your subject is very important it is off topic for a thread about Hawking’s theories. Why don’t you start one so you can share questions and comments with a larger audience? I imagine you will have plenty of responses.
 
I don’t like watching the news. All they talk about is all the trouble in the world.
 
IWantGod said:
I don’t like watching the news. All they talk about is all the trouble in the world.
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If you largely divorce yourself from it, you’re a happier person.

One fellow went back to newsprint only and was immensely happier and better informed for it.
 
Forget about Jews and Muslims, ‘Triune God’ does not make ‘sense’, even to us Christians (not that its supposed to)! I particularly like our concept of God in this context because it is so much beyond comprehension! One might still imagine a unitary God, but the concept of ‘three independent persons united to one divine essence which is both simple and indivisible’ is something impossible for the human mind to grasp. It definitely comes from beyond the realm of human understanding, in short, the Singularity/BB!
 
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Hawking didnt propose the Big Bang, but learned of it from Fr. George Lemaitre.

And if im not mistaken, Hawking criticized Fr. George’s theory of accelerated expansion, and then apologized after it was proven.

From Wiki:
In 1931, Lemaitre was the first scientist to propose the expansion of the universe was actually accelerating which was confirmed observationally in the 1990s through observations of very distant Type IA supernova with the Hubble Space Telescope
 
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Professor Stephen Hawking was a physicist, and his position was that the entire universe and time itself started with the Big Bang. Therefore, there isn’t any before the Big Bang, in a temporal sense. Now, in a causal sense, there is still a “before.” By this I mean that because it came into existence, the Big Bang must have been caused by something. However, because that cause is beyond the realms of time, space and physics as a whole, Professor Hawking never bothered to try to explain it.

He did, of course, try to define God out of existence, but his work on that score wasn’t related to physics. In fact, it could best be described as “a series of unexamined, amateurish, philosophical assumptions, masquerading as science, because a scientist is writing them.” For example, he questioned the objectivity of reality; a philosophical point so faulty, that, even if it were true, would only prove that he didn’t exist, and therefore didn’t make this point.

Professor Hawking was a very talented and capable physicist, but like Charlie Chaplin, he started to lose out whenever he made claims outside of his area of expertise.
 
Strange that a modern scientist basically hasn’t gotten away from Aristotle.

(I would point out that some great saints didn’t either… i.e. Aquinas).
 
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As far as I know, there is no scientific theory to explain that… also what caused the explosion? a system in equilibrium would require an external force to trigger such an event
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There was no ‘explosion’. Nor was there a big bang. There was no specific point from which everything expanded. They are layman’s terms to to try to descibe what can only be understood in mathematical terms.

And when anyone states that time began with the ‘big bang’, they mean time as we know it.
 
Hawkins views could be influenced by his atheist philosophy - just as the theory of evolution is a product of atheism. But Hawking isn’t an atheist anymore, so his views may have changed recently.

But as for scientifc theories that can’t be tested … who cares? Such pointless pursuits bore me to tears, as one doesn’t know if one is dealing with reality or fantasy or something in between.
 
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