Re: Stephen Hawking: God NOT Needed For Creation
The problem is that there are far more things that we don’t know about but place our belief in than the things we know about and trust in after we know about them. Just because Hawkings Mathematics works it does not mean it is right, to assert that it is ‘correct’ you need to have placed belief in the ability of the mathematician, in his ability to use the mathematics and in turn a belief in mathematics as a tool to explain ‘truth’ in every circumstance.
I can prove to you there are far more things that we take as fact without objective evidence or requiring it than what we don’t take without objective evidence. Your statement of trusting him is exactly that - a belief. Even he can’t prove that he is not placing a belief in what he says. However, for us we already say that we believe and we don’t need to demonstrate that relying on pure objective evidence is not only impossible but absurd.
Your response about the person trying to find a glimpse of a door also demonstrates that you did not understand my analogy. The one in the swimming pool will be the one who says there is no door because he has perfectly scanned the pool and has seen nothing. Likewise scientists are trying to find evidence of God when God according to religion (at least in Islam) tells us that He is Hidden. The Unseen concept applies only to the five sensory aspects, but we do have access to God from other areas that scientists won’t use or are unable to use.