GOD AND STEPHEN HAWKING
Whose design is it anyway?
By John C. Lennox. Lion Hudson. 96 pages. £4.99
ISBN 978 0 745 955 490
Eminent physicist Stephen Hawking claimed, in his recent book The Grand Design, that science had left no room for God in the creation of the universe: ‘Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing — why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touchpaper and set the universe going’.
Christian and mathematician John Lennox gives a robust response to this in his brief but helpful book, God and Stephen Hawking. Lennox demonstrates that the theory which Hawking claims eliminates God from the picture, in fact furthers the evidence that God exists by highlighting the mathematical beauty of the laws of nature.
