tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010300921036003176.post6361884216299112703..comments2024-03-17T10:19:02.765-07:00Comments on Tekton Ticker: Reviewing The Grand Design, Chapter Three: What is Reality?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3010300921036003176.post-73567547276589991262012-07-23T02:12:50.335-07:002012-07-23T02:12:50.335-07:00Hi, Mr. J. P. Holding. I thank you very much for y...Hi, Mr. J. P. Holding. I thank you very much for your work in rebutting the proponents of the Christ myth theory and your work in elucidating the truth of Christianity.<br /><br />Regarding Hawking and Mlodinow's book The Grand Design (New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2010), in an article that I wrote I pointed out the following irony:<br /><br />""<br />In an interview by ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer in 2010, Stephen Hawking said that "There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works." ...<br /><br />This comment by Hawking is unintentionally ironic on every point that he attempted to make with it. In Hawking's book coauthored with physicist Dr. Leonard Mlodinow and published in 2010, Hawking uses the String Theory extension M-Theory to argue that God's existence isn't necessary, although M-Theory has no observational evidence confirming it. Yet despite the complete lack of any confirmational observations for M-Theory, people are apparently supposed to be impressed that the authority-figure Hawking has come to this conclusion. As well, it begs the question as to what the prize is that science will win if sapient life is ultimately meaningless--which is a point that Hawking emphasized in his interview by Sawyer--and doomed to extinction.<br />""<br /><br />From pp. 34-35 of James Redford, "The Physics of God and the Quantum Gravity Theory of Everything", Social Science Research Network (SSRN), Apr. 9, 2012 (orig. pub. Dec. 19, 2011), 185 pp., doi:10.2139/ssrn.1974708, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything" rel="nofollow">http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhysicsOfGodAndTheQuantumGravityTheoryOfEverything</a> .<br /><br />My foregoing article contains much more concerning such matters.<br /><br />For an excellent critique of scientism/empiricism and logical positivism, particularly as applied to economics (although the critique is by no means limited to economics in its implications), see Prof. Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Economic Science and the Austrian Method (Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007; orig. pub. 1995), <a href="http://webcitation.org/63rQDYtj2" rel="nofollow">http://webcitation.org/63rQDYtj2</a> , especially pp. 33-35 and pp. 27 ff., although the entire book is great.James Redfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284915453745539533noreply@blogger.com