Re: Stephen Hawking: God NOT Needed For Creation
Total agreement! I’ve been saying this for about 2 years after realising what it is that atheists get wrong. They explain the how and feel that it is the why. For them ‘the how’ is an explanation of the purpose of being.
A classic one is in the Qur’an about shooting stars. We are told ‘why’ we get them … they fend off shaiyateen. However, the scientists say they are space rocks and ice that skim the surface of the Earth’s atmosphere and glow resulting in the observed shooting star, hence (they conclude) that they do not fend off devils/jinn - they say their trajectories bring them to a collision and this ‘how’ seems to explain the ‘why’ to them. And they sit by satisfied.
The true answer to why can only be given by the designer, everything else is just guess work.