The Big Bang, Stephen Hawking, and God Part 1 of 2

Summary: In this talk Dr. Schaefer weaves a discussion of cosmology with an informative biography of well-known physicist Stephen Hawking. In addition to detailing Hawking’s understanding of the beginning of the universe, Dr. Schaefer discusses what many leading theorists claim about the origins of life. Ultimately, Dr. Schaefer gives reasons for his rejection of the Steady State theory of the origin of the universe and explains what implications the theory of the Big Bang has for the existence and nature of God.
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Since physicist knows that more gravity slows time, at the big bang, when the whole mass of the universe was at the ‘singularity’ location, how do we measure time during the big bang? We know in current universe, a cesium clock ‘ticks’ at a certain speed. I wonder if anyone can postulate how it will ‘tick’ under the circumstance during the big bang. I would suppose, when Moses were to write down the creation account, he didn’t know about Lorentz Transform, the general or special theory of relativity or the Maxwell’s equations despite the best education he had at Egypt. Imagine God telling Moses, “Well, you got to know little more about the law of physics that I created, such as Maxwell’s equation. You don’t know who is Maxwell, but don’t worry. Forget about the 4 equations about light, so just write down that I said ‘Let there be light’.�
Yes, there dispute about the literal and non-literal interpretation of Genesis of 6 days of creation. Of course, we know some phrases in the Bible are not literal, as in when Jesus equated Herod as a fox. Just look at the amount of physics, chemistry, biology textbooks there are now. We don’t even read all of this and imagine if God told Moses to write all this down for people to read and understand the universe as created by God.