The Stephen Hawking Delusion by Hamza Tzortzis

[The Inimitable Quran]

"From these excerpts alone it seems to me that the Professor is claiming that things can pop into being and that the universe spontaneously emerged from nothing. The Professor makes these conclusions as he seems to be holding an indeterministic view of physics. This means that he believes that there are many sub-atomic events that do not correspond with causality, because some physicists claim that sub-atomic particles behave unpredictably and spontaneously in the quantum vacuum all without any perceived cause!

However there are two main problems with this view..."

Read more here: Hamza Andreas Tzortzis: Comment: The Stephen Hawking Delusion

[DefendingIslam]

Salam Alaykum,

As I had mentioned before, the problem is that the physicists and scientists in general are looking for the cause of things in the Universe itself.

This will never lead to anyone believing in Allah, since they will keep on studying the cause until they find some natural cause and then they will claim that this natural cause is what brought it into existence. If they do not find it, then they will say some things are uncaused (naturally speaking), which is correct for some of the things we see in the natural world - such as miracles- but through this method they will always fail to believe in Allah. At most they might become Deists or some other non-Islamic religion (they could miraculously become Muslims, but that would be not due to their findings or their reasoning).

Insha Allah other members can expand on this argument as necessary.

[Ron Krumpos]

In "The Grand Design" Stephen Hawking postulates that the M-theory may be the Holy Grail of physics...the Grand Unified Theory which Einstein had tried to formulate and later abandoned. It expands on quantum mechanics and string theories.

In my e-book on comparative mysticism is a quote by Albert Einstein: “…most beautiful and profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and most radiant beauty – which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive form – this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all religion.”

Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity is probably the best known scientific equation. I revised it to help better understand the relationship between divine Essence (Spirit), matter (mass/energy: visible/dark) and consciousness (fx raised to its greatest power). Unlike the speed of light, which is a constant, there are no exact measurements for consciousness. In this hypothetical formula, basic consciousness may be of insects, to the second power of animals and to the third power the rational mind of humans. The fourth power is suprarational consciousness of mystics, when they intuit the divine essence in perceived matter. This was a convenient analogy, but there cannot be a divine formula.