Recently an old friend posted a song on Facebook, Athiests don't have No Songs by Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. I know one of the Steep Canyon Rangers so I was very interested to watch it. Here it is if you would like :
This in turn led me to a Blog
greatmindsongod.blogspot.com
Ah, I thought! This will be great! Some open minded and diverse discussions on God. Well, I only spent an hour on this website but it would have been better titled" Video Clips of pompous people ridiculing videos of really STUPID people who are giving religion a bad name.blogspot. I guess that wouldn't fit in the name field.
Don't get me wrong, most of the stuff on there would make Jesus turn over in his grave if he had one, but nobody was using their great mind to talk about God. Instead they were using their great big mouth to carp and whine about what they disliked in peoples behavior that called them selves followers of God.
My next stop on this journey was that I DVR'd a show called Curiosity on the Discovery Channel. This episode was of Stephen Hawkings discussing he question "Is there a God". I don't know much about Mr. Hawkings but I thought this guy is supposed to be a genius so it ought to be interesting.
Well, the first 3/4s of the show was more of the same. Mr. Hawkings looking rather pompous in his wheel chair, making all kind of expressions with his eyebrow (sometimes you just can't resist a cheap shot, the devil made me do it) and talking about how stupid people have been in the past in believing in God and gods. Yes I agree it was stupid for the Vikings to think they caused the end of eclipses because they would shout at the god that ate the sun. Yes it was wrong for "the church" to put Galileo in prison for believing the earth rotated the sun, but let's here YOUR argument MR. Hawkings.
Ok here we go, great we are talking Natural Laws (not Natural Light which I hate) Einstein, E=MC2, (I get this stuff, I went to Virginia Tech), Big Bang Theory ( I love that show). Of course lots of folks point to the Big Bang as the point when God put the wheel into motion so what does Mr. Hawkings say about that? I'm really interested, I really am I want to hear some compelling argument. Here it is: the Big Bang come from a black hole. Now we know a lot about black holes cause we have them now, they are floating in space now, so we know a lot about them you see. Well, apparently in black holes the gravity is so strong everything is condensed to minuscule and extremely dense matter. Soooo even time stops in a black hole. So here it is, does Mr. Hawking believe in a Divine Creator not and why? Wait for it!
There is no God. Why? Because there was no time in the black hole so if there was no time then God couldn't have been there because there is nothing before time. What? That is your explanation why there is no God? Well, this made Mr. Hawking very excited (eye brow was going CRAZY) and very appreciative that we have this one life time to enjoy earth.
Ok, now I have set to DVR to watch Joey Behar talking to Donnie Osmond (certainly two of the greatest minds of our time) about the Book of Mormon on Broadway. I'll keep you posted.
