I read from pre-launch publicity that Stephen Hawking, in his forthcoming book, will state that it wasn’t necessary for God to ‘light the blue touchpaper’ that set off the Big Bang or Creation.   Obviously, his publicists know how to spin that pre-launch publicity!   Apparently, he will state that our universe’s coming about was an inevitable consequence of physics.  I’ll hold fire on commenting on his latest book until I’ve read it – but I’m just wondering how this latest perspective on God can be squared with the findings of quantum physics – often bizarre to the normal mind – that confirm  that our universe is responsive.

From the small snippets that I have read, Hawking’s views on God – for an apparently intelligent man – are based on an absurdly narrow, almost fundamentalist, interpretation of who or what God is!  A little like Richard Dawkins, his mind might just be a little too constrained to realize or understand the magnitude and reality of God.

Undoubtedly, Hawking is one of this planet’s greatest minds.  But could it be that God, with his or her PhD in creation, is looking down on the brightest pupil in kindergarten with a wry smile?