I remember reading “The Grand Design” by Stephen Hawking and thinking, “How can someone so smart be so illogical?” At one point he spends several paragraphs going through all of the things that had to happen just so for the universe to be created, and they all had to happen in just the right order within a specific time, at times at the right millisecond. I read it in awe and amazement. Then he concluded with basically a “and some God was supposed to have done all of that?” (seriously paraphrasing here, but basically his point.) I was dumbfounded. I developed the opinion from this that there are really different types of knowing. I know God. This is the ultimate goal for all of us, but not everybody learns at the same pace. I realized that in this respect, I am more of a genius than Stephen Hawking! Okay, TOTALLY KIDDING, but fun to say!
But, while I recognize the dangers of materialism and secularism, I still personally believe that good will come of those scientists who are questioning God. While they take it to extremes (we humans have a slight tendency of doing this) they are still destroying so many superstitions that have held people enslaved to religions for ages. While science can never prove God (it is a piece of God, God is not a piece of science), I am curious to see whether the quest for knowledge will eventually lead to an understanding that science just can’t explain it all.
I also agree with Bonita in that many people just don’t seem to understand that God can exist outside of a religion or how the bible has described Him. I am always shocked when I hear scientists deny God based on things like the earth not being created in 7 days. Again, this is SO amazing to me that these intelligent minds can’t understand that God can still exist, even if human beings have gotten many things wrong pertaining to him. I believe this is part of the purpose of TUB, to give a new description of God as a logical, reasonable, loving, and consistent being that can be more easily accepted by the thinking mind.
