Stephen Hawking's Mistake

Since "A Brief History of Time" was published Stephan Hawking has declared that there is no need for God the Creator. His most recent comments reaffirm this opinion. The law of gravity shows that "spontaneous creation" is possible. As an additional indication that a personal Creator is absurd he points to the discovery of extrasolar planets. Mankind's place in the Universe is not unique or special.

And where did the law of gravity or, as he put it in Brief History, the properties of zero come from? The complete scientific view of the physical universe today is not the collection of either observed mass or dark mass but space and time itself.
In other words, to return to a Biblical metaphor, energy and mass are contained within the "bowl" of space-time. When Hawking and other physicists say that the universe is the result of the law of gravity or string theory "branes" colliding they are incorrectly referring only to the contents of the bowl. Experiments do seem to show "virtual" particles arising in a vacuum. But a man-made vacuum cannot eliminate the very structure of Space. Space-time is a thing. It may be a property of this thing to perhaps "spark" a particle.

A critic correctly said that Hawking did not answer the question of why anything exists and continued on to state this was a matter of faith. I beg to differ. It is a matter of empirical physical scientists not being properly trained in classical philosophy. Hawking sees "spontaneous creation" within the container of space-time. He fails to ask the question again, "What is the cause of space-time?". Aristotle was not a man of religious faith. At this point he simply has the necessary scientific humility to say that there must be an "uncaused cause".

And those extrasolar planets? How great God is!