The contradiction in the following quote from his new book proves that the greatest mathematician can fail to translate equations into basic logic.
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”
Gravity can be measured and has been; the first to do so was Isaac Newton. If you care to know the mathematical law you can look it up. But there would be no “law” without existing material things subject to it, which are obviously measurable. What we observe, which Hawking’s denies, is the law that the Creator established in creating things, as the Book of Wisdom says, according to measure, number and weight. Hawking asserts that an existing “something,” namely the law of gravity, gives the universe the potential to “create itself from nothing.” I am not going to comment further. A grade school student, who has no scientific knowledge of logic, could see the self-evident absurdity of this blatant contradiction. As scripture says, “The fool says in his heart there is no God.” And only a fool could miss the non-equation that would follow such a statement as non-being “creating itself” into being. One cannot form any true conclusions from logical reasoning if one’s first principle denies the first law of contradiction, the self-evident principle of identity: Nothing can be and not be at the same time. Read full article here.
