Glad to say that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic, and that faith in God is very important to me. Of course, it doesn't mean I don't have unanswered questions.
Stephen Hawking's is a brilliant, brilliant man who has probably forgotten more than I'll ever know. He certainly has suffered a lot from his ALS, and I do feel sorry for him.
He was recently interviewed on national television where he said he prefers science to religion because science has the answers. I've read some other articles that suggest that, while Hawkings mentions God frequently in his famous A Brief History of Time, science replaces his need for a creator, and he does not believe in a benevolent God.
Which leads to Stephen Hawking's question. At the end of the interview on ABC News, he was asked what one question he would like to know the answer to. He replied (I'm paraphrasing a bit): why is there anything in the universe as opposed to being nothing.
Isn't this the same question many of us ponder when we wonder about the meaning of life? Even Hawking's vaunted science doesn't have an answer. To me, the answer to this question will only be found in religion, from God, not in science.
Maybe I've got some smarts, too, eh?
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