Stephen Hawking: The Grand Design
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- 00:04
- Hey everyone, it's John from AuroreNoMore .com, and I want to share some problems I had with Stephen Hawking's new book,
- 00:11
- The Grand Design. I just read it a couple weeks ago, and I'd like to say that it does a good job breaking down some physics concepts.
- 00:18
- So if you want to buy it for that, then go for it, but there's probably better books out there. The problem I have is his basic thesis is that there's no need for God, because M -theory, or the string theory, explains everything, because there are multiple universes, and therefore, with multiple universes, ours is not special in its complexity.
- 00:35
- Three problems I have with this. Number one, it fails to talk about the preconditions of intelligibility, or give a good answer for them.
- 00:41
- How come we can even intelligently talk about such subjects, the laws of logic, uniformity of nature, our understanding and our senses?
- 00:49
- He just assumes these things are legitimate on the outset. Number two, he talks about philosophy being dead, and science being the way to answer things.
- 00:57
- Well, the problem is that his book is really on physics theory, which is philosophy. So he cuts off the branch he's sitting on.
- 01:03
- Number three, there's this mechanism called M -theory, which creates the multiple universes, yet that very mechanism is so complex, it requires a designer.
- 01:11
- So he actually never really answers the question that he's intending to answer, and his argument thus is fallacious.
- 01:17
- I have a lot more about this, including links to other apologists who have talked about it, on my blog. Go to the link below in the info bar, roarnomore .com.