Wednesday, September 22, 2010

The Grand Design - The Straight Story

I have just completed reading, "The Grand Design," by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. It was a good book. I do not agree with everything they write, but then it is for a lay audience and not for specialists. This book is available for sale from the bookstore below.

Let me state one thing right up front and make it completely clear: Nowhere in the book do the authors state that God does not exist! Period! As I suspected (see a previous post) all the authors state is that the current physical theories are such that no appeal to God is necessary to explain the existence of the universe. In other words, the physical laws are rich enough to explain how the universe came into being out of nothing.

The one objection that I have to the book is the reliance on M-theory, this is a theory that I do not understand; so it is difficult for me to critique it. I know just enough to get myself into trouble, so I will refrain.

I enjoyed the book a lot! if you are interested in physics, this is worth getting.

Ignore all the hype, it is nothing but lies! No one who has read the book can truthfully state that the authors said that God does not exist. It is a very nioe history of the development of theories of the universe of all types.

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