“Everyone is looking for a society so perfect that people don’t have to be good.” T.S. Eliot
Stephen Hawking has said “God may exist but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.” He also iterates “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist, and it is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue torch and set the universe going.”
If these Atheistic and Darwinistic ways are to be totally adhered to and believed in than Stephen Hawking does not believe in what he preaches. Invoking the “tabletop test”, at least it is known in the tech world where you put something to the test in the real world like pushing a device off the kitchen table and see if it still works, we play the whole scenario out to its furthest end. Atheism and Darwinism means there is no God, no repercussions for not being good, no ultimate moral law for when we die there is no one to hold us accountable. So play it totally out in life by stealing as much money as you can, killing as many people it takes who get in your way, and grabbing for all the gusto that you can for this life is all you get.
Stephen Hawking further explains that “the coincidences of our planetary conditions far less remarkable and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings.” Under that assumption that would make us God’s. Sounds more like the original sin than anything else.
If T.S. Eliot and Stephen Hawking are right then that is why we see playing out in our world the bad things that are. When we leave God out of it, than what is left in its place? Not goodness and a propensity for otherwise.
What Stephen Hawking is teaching us is that life is the product of chance combinations of matter, that it is governed by laws of adaptation and survival. There is no afterlife, no “savior” to reward self-sacrifice or to punish egoism or rapacity. How then will we teach people to be noble and honorable men and women, expanding all their energies on doing good for the benefit of society? But they lack motivation for goodness. They see that in a purely material world only he who grabs for himself possesses anything. Why should we be self-denying and honest? What motive can be offered us to live lives of usefulness to others?
Furthering the tabletop test, are things getting better or are they getting worse? If God is being left out by the decisions of the human race and is no longer wanted, then that would be the reason for the latter answer rather than the former.
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