Hawking and Ibn Al-Nafees
i n a rare, but not unusual, meeting with the holy see at the vatican, pope benedict xvi invited physicist stephen hawking to visit him at the catholic diocese, despite the pope’s knowledge of the truth of hawking’s views, the skeptics of the church’s foundations and the theories of existence. hawking had already expressed his views to the british times, saying that modern physics leaves no room for faith in the creation of the universe. just as the darwinian theory has removed the need for ‘biological’ science, a number of new theories have questioned the creation of the universe. what was known as the big bang was only the inevitable consequences of the laws of physics, and because there was a law like gravity, the universe could create itself from nothing. this spontaneous creation is why there is something rather than nothing, in the presence of the universe and our being. professor hawking mentioned in ‘a brief history of time’ in 1988 that he did not object to religious beliefs and suggested that the idea of creator does not conflict with the scientific understanding of the universe, and that a complementary theory that facilitates us and the great final triumph of the human mind; we will be able to take note of the way the universe is found. but the latest book, ‘the great project’ recently published and written by hawkins in cooperation with the american physicist lennard melodino offers a comprehensive new theory that leads to the great scientific framework leaving no room for predicting the existence of the universe. some see the vatican’s patronage and the head of catholicism, the chief skeptic, as a kind of apology to what the great western scholars had previously been subjected to persecution by the church during the dark ages. among them was the great scientist galileo galilei 1564-1642, the italian physicist and aristotle’ who contrary to the beliefs of the church about the center of the universe, said the earth revolves around the sun with other planets, which contradicts the text of the bible and was therefore persecuted. of all this, we find it necessary to stop the mixing of religions with science, and to keep religions respected within the places of worship and leave the affairs of the country to the scientists not priests and monks. the famous american physicist steven weinberg, winner of the nobel prize said, “with religion or without religion, the good people will continue to do good deeds. the wicked will continue to do evil deeds. for good beings to commit evil deeds, here we need faith.” will the pope’s initiative push our religious institutions to do the same, and re-examine the real scholars of the nation who have all been tortured and killed over time?
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