{"id":69105,"date":"2018-03-15T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69105"},"modified":"2018-03-15T08:13:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T12:13:35","slug":"premier-prof-tom-mcleish-stephen-hawking-may-have-rejected-god-but-he-taught-us-to-marvel-at-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69105","title":{"rendered":"(Premier) Prof Tom McLeish&#8211;Stephen Hawking may have rejected God, but he taught us to marvel at creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Stephen]&#8230;Hawking was clear time and again that he found the \u2018case for a Creator\u2019 unconvincing, but the reason for that seems to have never moved from a failure of that otherwise all-seeing mind to see beyond physics itself.<\/p>\n<p>His conclusion that we do not \u2018need God to light the blue touch paper of the Big Bang\u2019 is not contested in terms of physics. But \u2018why there is something rather than nothing\u2019 is not a physics question \u2013 it lies in the theological realm to which, in spite of many thoughtful Christian correspondents over the years, including former archbishop Rowan Williams and Oxford mathematician John Lennox, Hawking seemed to remain impervious.<\/p>\n<p>While we may sorrow over Hawking\u2019s rejection of God, the Creator who is and loves and gives \u2013 rather than just \u2018explains\u2019, we may nevertheless be thankful to that God for the gift of one who articulated, even in unbelief, that our biblical calling is indeed to know God&#8217;s mind, to look into nature with the same love and insight as its creator, and to live with courage using the gifts we have rather than surrendering to our incapacities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premierchristianity.com\/Blog\/Stephen-Hawking-may-have-rejected-God-but-he-taught-us-to-marvel-at-creation\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Stephen Hawking has died age 76, his family announced early Wednesday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iAth2dlZf0\">https:\/\/t.co\/iAth2dlZf0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBC News (@NBCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/973887748640735232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Stephen]&#8230;Hawking was clear time and again that he found the \u2018case for a Creator\u2019 unconvincing, but the reason for that seems to have never moved from a failure of that otherwise all-seeing mind to see beyond physics itself. His conclusion<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=69105\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69108,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69105\/revisions\/69108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}