Fairy Tales

“Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

I got my new issue of Acts and Facts in the mail today.  I noticed a subtitle on the cover that said "Hijacking the Scientific Method".  I still haven't read the whole thing but the above quote was put into a special box and caught my eye.  I had to read it a few times to really understand what he was saying...I mean it is a little out there.

You mean facts aren't really facts? 

If facts are not facts, than what is real? 

Is there a reality?

Hmmmmm.............

Did you follow that train of thought that I just had going on there?  

I could really go places with that!

Right?

Romans 1:20-22(NIV)

For since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.  For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools

While its kind of fun to ponder right on down that path, it's futile...

pointless...

foolish even.

Is your heart beating?

Can you pinch yourself and it hurts?

Yes people, we are ALIVE...therefore there is a reality.

You are real, believe it or not! 

What is the absence of reality?

What is the absence of real?

Death?

Is death real?

Can you choose your reality?

In other words, is it relative?

Well, I suppose you could...but then is it really reality?  Maybe it depends on your definition of reality.  

Lets look at the definition by the way:

re·al·i·ty 

1. The quality or state of being actual or true.2. One, such as a person, an entity, or an event, that is actual: "the weight of history and political realities" (Benno C. Schmidt, Jr.)3. The totality of all things possessing actuality, existence, or essence.4. That which exists objectively and in fact: Your observations do not seem to be about reality.

I think if you can prove that reality doesn't exist or is relative (same thing because then its not reality)...

oh wait...you can't prove anything...

nevermind...

conversation over!

or is it?

I can't really be sure.

Haha...okay...enough messing around

I think you get the point.

If you can't prove anything (especially physical things) to be factual then you are basically saying reality doesn't exist...in which case...absolutely nothing matters.

Its futile because if reality didn't exist, you couldn't prove that anyway.

The book of Romans tells us that futile = foolish

You either believe there is general order, rationale, patterns (begs of a creator)...or you believe there is general chaos, relativity and unpredictability (evolution). 

Romans 1:20 basically tells us that in everything we see (visual = reality) there is an indication of God's existence...his character...his qualities...his nature

have you seen the structure of DNA?

Does that look random to you?

Hawking speaks of the beauty of the double helix...yet he denies Gods hand in it.

God = order, symmetry, pattern = trust

How about this?

Do you see it?

There is a theory of gravity that says if I jump, I will come back down. 

According to Stephen Hawking, I can't prove this...I can never be sure that the next time I jump, I won't keep going. Somehow the universe is going to just randomly change without notice.  Kind of like how the big bang occurred...out of nowhere, with no ignition.

Can you imagine living with an ethos like that and how it affects the way you live your life? 

At some point our thoughts become futile...pointless. 

A brilliant man easily overthinks. 

Can we just talk about the psychological, attachment and trust issues this guy must have?

Maybe another day. 

He says Christians are scared so we make up this fairy tale called heaven (paraphrased quote He said at premiere of his documentary).

Is Hawking fearless? Doesn't sound like it.

He has no idea there is so much more to Christianity than a cover up of our fear. 

I know one thing:

We can not make a possible imagined future our reality in the present! 

It's called paranoia....altered reality. 

Know anyone who suffers with paranoia?

A mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, or exaggerated self-importance, typically elaborated into an organized system. It may be an aspect of chronic personality disorder, of drug abuse, or of a serious condition such as schizophrenia in which the person loses touch with reality.
Suspicion and mistrust of people or their actions without evidence or justification:  the global paranoia about hackers and viruses

I like this definition because it uses the word reality which we've been discussing.

Has Hawking "seen" what he fears?  No!  Its absolutely irrational by all psychological standards to suggest that everything physical in this world can never truly be fact.

It is not our reality that physical things in this world exhibit randomness or chaos.  Therefore, we shouldn't expect them to...to do so would be out of touch with "reality".  

His suspicion and mistrust of the physical things of this world are without evidence or justification.

His very statement in itself is nothing but a hypothesis with no basis in "reality" whatsoever...

AND he can't prove it to be factual according to his own admission.

Who exactly is living (and thinking) in a fairy tale?

Is he basically asserting to throw out the scientific method and science with it? I guess I'll have to read that article and someone else's opinion...someone smarter than myself. 

Atheists think christians hate science...they should check this guy out!

Hawking would like us to believe everything is relative and subjective. No right, no wrong. No dependability in anything...don't trust anything, it could change at any moment.

The wedge between God and Man is mistrust.

He knows he can't prove evolution as fact...He knows it goes against every observable thing in this world...so this is his way around it I guess. 

Too bad he had to leave reality to get there.

I know something else...I know he will never accidentally fly off into space in his lifetime... 

but he will spend it thinking about imaginary things (fairy tales) that might happen.