Kirk Cameron slams Stephen Hawking for atheist claims
Stephen Hawking’s theory about the inexistence of heaven has prompted actor Kirk Cameron to defend the Christian belief.
Stephen Hawking’s statement that heaven is a “fairy tale” was recently confronted by Christian actor Kirk Cameron.
Former Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron called his claims false.
“Professor Hawking is heralded as ‘the genius of Britain,’ yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life,” Cameron says.
“Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking’s writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?” the actor continues.
This isn’t the first time Hawking sparks criticism and debate. In his book “The Grand Design” he explains the reason why there is no need for a God by the M-Theory. However, this theory is completely un-testable.
Blogger Rob Kerby, senior editor of BeliefNet, stated that it’s “not the first time that Hawking has been wrong.”
He continues: “Stanford University physicist Leonard Susskind not so long ago disproved Hawking’s adamant contention that, when black holes disappear, they take along with them all information that ever existed inside them. On July 22, 2004, Hawking had to concede to hundreds of colleagues at the 17th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation in Dublin that Susskind was right.”
What’s your opinion?
Instead Cameron suggests that an omnipotent being with no origin transversed infinity, and then created something out of nothing?
This, and we haven’t delved into the trinity where God impregnates Mary with himself, is born and lives a semi-mortal life, where he blesses himself, prays to himself, and observes his own behavior in the third-person, only to die for “us” and return to himself?
This guy is challenging Hawkings? You can believe whatever you want, but at the very least Cameron ought to appreciate the fact that his explanation is a far bigger pill to swallow.
Oh wait you can get something from nothing – moron
http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2011/02/can_you_get_something_for_noth.php
why are we concerned with what curt cameron has to say on this subject? he is so unqualified to deliver an opinion on this subject…i mean he is an actor? And not a very good one at that.
is this the best the crazy ID and born again christians lemmings have to offer?
please.
Is this Kirk Cameron, the well-known quantum physicist, or KirK Cameron the know-nothing celebrity zealot?
Hawkins is big enough and smart enough to admit when he was wrong. and, that’s the whole ethical problem with religion. 2000 years ago the bible’s view of the world, at least in the desert, People looked up in the sky and saw” the heavens”, it moved but it didnt change, it seemed eternal. it was far more probable, but now it’s known to contradict itself so many times that it’s become necessary to become more and more evasive and tricky to continue it’s plausibility. And even the existence of some unknowable creator wouldn’t justify the kinds of things its used –for like hating gay people.
I started laughing as soon as I read the article’s title!
At least when a scientist is confronted with evidence contrary to his beliefs, he/she can and usually will change his or her view about the topic in question. This is a great example of scientific falsifiability!
The bible, on the other hand, forbids this type of intellectual honesty (read more about Kirk Ca”moron” and Ray Comfort to learn all about “circumnavigating the intellect” as well as the “croco-duck” and “the atheist’s worst nightmare”- ha! You just have to laugh out loud when you compare these “theories” to Hawking’s!!!). When the “Holey” Bible is questioned, these guys almost literally stick their fingers in their ears and go “la-la-la-la… I can’t hear you…”.
My point is that “Prof.” Kirk Cameron is no one to comment on this topic. He is merely a silly believer for no good reason, and is just fearful of his pretend “loving” god whom he is coerced by daily, with threats of eternal torture, and feels compelled to speak out (or else…).
I personally don’t scare so easily…
Take care and continue to think while it’s still legal!
“Hawking had to concede … that Susskind was right.”
That’s how science works! It is not the same as religion and politics – you don’t get vilified for U-turns. It’s a continuously self correcting and refining enterprise. And the only way that it can do that is for every scientist to know that every single physical law, theory and hypothesis is now and always will be provisional, not absolute. If you find some evidence that doesn’t fit the model, you change the model not the evidence.
The audacity of demanding evidence when there’s no evidence for what Kirk believes and promotes is astounding, as astounding as his ignorance of science evidenced by, “out of nothing, everything came”.
And if being mistaken once means everything you ever say afterwards must be wrong as well, need I remind Kirk of his and Comfort’s nonsense about the banana?
True Christians don’t hate gay people, they simply don’t agree with their lifestyle and opinions.
…and deny them equal rights! Don’t forget that!
To summarize Cameron’s response to Hawking:
“Your view on the beginning of the universe has no evidence so therefore, my view which also has no evidence is the right one. And the beginning of the universe has something to with life after death, which is what you were talking about.”
Does he realize that it takes a severe lack of thought to take him seriously?
do you agree with something that goes against your morals and you simply cannot accept because you feel it is wrong? would you approve of something if you didn’t believe it was right?
we try to convince ourselves that accepting homosexual relationships is something natural because the human race has evolved and we’re different than what we were hundreds of years ago. that’s true but accepting that two men or two women can form a couple doesn’t mean evolution in my opinion. progress shouldn’t be about changing the natural way things work.
think of it this way..the Universe is made up of opposites: plus and minus, hot and cold, south and north, night and day, good and bad. they’re all totally different from each other, yet it is exactly by this antagonism that the whole world functions. despite being total opposites, they attract each other and this attraction is what creates the balance and harmony of the Universe. it’s the same with human relations. if you consider this idea that the attraction between different elements assures the balance, then you’ll see that a relationship between a man and another man doesn’t go by the natural order of things.
it’s a certain perfection about their imperfection that makes the relation between a man and a woman so beautiful..