![]() He sprinkles these gems throughout the book in an apparent attempt to marginalize all religious thought as ignorant and unworthy of serious consideration. ![]() Finally, Hawking sets forth M-Theory as the idea that he is championing.Ĭhapter Two begins by recounting a Viking myth that explained the movement of the sun and moon through the sky. He explains that his theories will be based on the (dead?) philosophy of model-dependent realism, which he defines as ascribing the quality of absolute truth to any information received through the five senses. Hawking then goes on to explain the basics of Quantum Physics. LOC Classification QC794.6 Physics > Nuclear & Particle Physics > Radioactivity > Grand Unified Theories CONTENTS & SUMMARYĬhapter One begins by asserting that Philosophy is dead because it has not kept up with modern science, and as such, scientists are the ones who hold the answers that explain the existence of all things. GENREĭewey Classification 530.142 (Theories of Mathematical Physics) The dust jacket sets this book forth as the only plausible explanation for the origin of the universe and everything in it other than the idea of a benevolent creator. It would seem that we’ve done a good enough job that the leading atheistic minds have abandoned the Big Bang and moved on to a new theory, known as String Theory, M-Theory, or the Multiverse Theory, which he hails as “the only viable candidate for a complete ‘theory of everything’” (emphasis his). ![]() ![]() ![]() The church is familiar with the narrative of the Big Bang and has spent a few decades learning how to refute that theory. ![]()
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