Stephen Hawking
| “ | All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God. | ” |
—Stephen Hawking boasting about making God irrelevant as he ignores clear proof to the contrary | ||
Professor Stephen William Hawking (b. 1942) is a British physicist well known for his promotion of the Big Bang and the non-existence of God. Despite a deeply flawed perspective on the universe, he got a Ph.D. in cosmology from Cambridge University and suffers from Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.
Hawking is infamous in many creationist circles for mockingly referring to "the Creator" in his lectures and books while blatantly denying God and his clear role in creating and maintaining the universe. He relentlessly advocates anti-biblical concepts such as a 13.7 billion year old universe. Hawking frequently displays other non-Christian qualities as he has been divorced several times.[1]
Despite his opprobrium, Hawking has been revered around the world by the atheist community and almost deified in the increasingly prevalent atheist pseudoscience community; he has been allowed into the Royal Society, given the Albert Einstein Award and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire, and even honored with the Pius XI Gold Medal for Science by Pope Paul VI. His perceived abundance of expertise on the workings of the universe have made him popular with the secularized public.