Steven Hawkins says God was not necessary for the creation of the universe. He claims physics proves the big bang creation of the universe had to happen. Current understanding of physics proves no such thing and cannot even explain what happens in black holes or give mathematical proof to the Big Bang Theory!! Of course he also conveniently doesn’t try to explain where the stuff to create universes came from other than maybe from another universe, which came from another universe too of course; a circular reasoning of the pretend supporting itself and without any real beginning.
I guess Steven needs the money, and pretending to have proof that God isn’t needed so doesn’t exist is a way to get a lot of publicity and sell a lot of books to a larger audience than just the mathematicians, who would normally be the only people who would bother to buy a book he puts out. He probably figures he is so great that no one would dare to confront the fact that he chose to ignore the truth that our glorious theories of the physics that rule the universe break down when mathematicians try to apply those principles to situations like black holes and the big bang theory. Their belief that the speed of light is a constant that could under no circumstances change presents mathematical problems with the Big Bang theory so they simply make stuff up to get the math to work because they don’t wish to believe they are wrong in either of those theories.
In the past scientists played with math to try to explain away the observed celestial movements and keep their belief that the Earth was the center of the universe and everything circled it. Some people like to pretend the theory was forced on scientists by the Catholic Church but it was a theory believed in many nations outside of the church influence, because it is the nature of man to cater to his self-centeredness. It just happened to be a person living in a nation under the Roman Catholic power who was historically the first known person to give acceptable mathematical proof that the universe did not circle the Earth, so he encountered massive resistance and an attack from the church as well as the usual scientists who don’t like admitting being wrong.
The theory of black holes is that the gravity is so strong that even light cannot escape, and the Universe Big Bang Theory is that every bit of the universe was packed into an even smaller area then the massive black holes at the center of our galaxies and then exploded out against that extra super massive force of gravity for some reason. Maybe the stuff tore a hole from another universe and nothing had to obey the laws of physics at the beginning because this new universe didn’t exist previously so it hadn’t made up the rules yet, eh Steven?
It is easy to come up with theories if you choose to ignore the factors that won’t fit into your equation. Steven’s no-God theory conveniently doesn’t bother to explain where anything came from in the first place or how it compiled together or stayed together until it just decided to go bang and even then didn’t obey the known physics theories at the very beginning of the blast, just like Darwin’s delusional religion cannot give any mathematically plausible explanation of how life began without leaving out known factors that disprove it having any validity.
Finally, how can anyone present a valid theory of the universe that excludes the majority of what makes up the universe, which is Dark Matter, and with mathematical theories that fail under certain situations? That is like taking a few stones from the ground then claiming that you know everything the planet is composed of and how the planet and everything on it came into existence. A mathematician is just a computer doing math if he is incapable of himself knowing all the variables that must be included to reach valid conclusions. Sorry Steven but your supposed superior intellect and superior mathematical ability don’t impress me enough to cause me to suspend all intelligence and buy into your delusion.