Thursday, September 02, 2010

On Spontaneity and Creation (Corrected)

Stephen Hawking has written a book that contends that "creation was Godless" and proposes a doctrine of "spontaneous creation."

Hawking is undoubtedly a genious in the field of physics and astrophysics, but he's got no credentials to make pronouncements in metaphysics or ontology.

His doctrine of "spontaneous creation" resonates so clearly with the once popular but thoroughly discredited theory of "spontaneous generation" that it is hard to believe that he could be serious.

2 comments:

Tauratinswe said...

I think you mean spontaneous generation not spontaneous combustion. Spontaneous generation has been disproven. Spontaneous combustion happens.

Bruce Prescott said...

Thanks Tauratinzwe,

You're right.