This past weekend I led a retreat at the ASU Newman Center. It was an apologetics retreat called God is Real and I hope to use it to teach Catholics that science, philosophy, and history can provide good evidence that God exists and that he has revealed himself in the
person of Christ. I’ve been busy in the last few weeks preparing for the retreat as well
as a talk on God’s existence that I gave at the Newman Center last Thursday.
But since that is over, I’ve had a chance to view the recent Discovery channel
show Curiosity and their first episode “Did
God Create the Universe?" hosted by Stephen Hawking. Hawking is a
world-famous physicist, but most people know him as “the smart guy in a
wheelchair who sounds like a computer.”
So how would I summarize the show and Hawking’s view on
God? Basically, “religion was something stupid people used to explain the
universe, but now science has answered everything and we don’t need God. In
fact, God couldn’t have made the universe even if he tried.” . . . Okay, let me make
a few points:
