Only a Fool ....

As I tend to share some quotes from my work, I thought I would
 share this one from my latest novel, Vocation of a Gadfly 


It is a poem called 'Dixit Insipiens'.

Only a fool says in his heart

There is no Creator, no King of kings,

Only mules would dare to bray

These lethal mutterings.

Over darkened minds as these

The Darkness bears full sway,

Fruitless, yet, bearing fruit,

In their fell, destructive way.

Sterile, though proliferate,

A filthy progeny sees the day,

When Evil, Thought and Action mate:

Breeding sin, rebels and decay.

The blackest deeds and foul ideals,

Multiply throughout the earth,

Through deadened, lifeless, braying souls,

The Darkness labours and gives birth.

Taking the Lord’s abundant gifts

And rotting them to the core,

They dress their dish and serve it out

Foul seeds to infect thousands more.

‘The Tree of Life is dead!’ they cry,

‘And that of Knowledge not enough,

Let us glut on the ashen apples

Of Sodom and Gomorrah.’

Have pity on Thy children, Lord,

Left sorrowing on this earth,

While fools and all their kindred

Cast shadows with their murk,

And to the dwindling wise,

They toss their heads and wryly smirk.

The world daily grinds to dust

Virtue’s fair unicorns,

Rather, it would now beget

Vice’s mutant manticores.

Wisdom crushed, our joy is gone,

Buried under anxious fears

For lost rights and freedoms,

We shed many bitter tears.

Death is life, Life is no more,

Humanity buried in a tomb,

In a fatal prenatal world

Where tiny flowers

Are ripped from the womb,

Discarded, thrown away,

Inconvenient lives

That barely bloomed.

Our elders fare no better,

Their wisdom unwanted by and by,

Boarded out to end their days,

And forsaken are left to die.

Only the youthful and the useful,

In this capital age prosper and fly.

Yet, they too are quickly strangled,

Before their future plans are met,

Professions legally pre-enslaved

Held bound by mounting student debt.

Our leaders all harangue for peace

Yet perpetrate the horror,

Of economic greed shored up

Through manufactured war.

Our armies now welter

In foreign civilian gore.

How many of our kin are slain

For hollow martial honour?

As if we could forget, ignore,

The scourge of nuclear power,

Alas, victors are rarely tried

For their woeful crimes of war.

Hope and pray we never see

A repeat of Hiroshima.

No more!

Crimes are legion,

The deeds of devil-spawn!

What has happened to the souls

Your Divine Image was minted on?

They are now recast:

Crooked coins of Caesar and

The Whore of Babylon.

How often mankind shuts its ears

To Your music celestial,

Mankind would rather march

To the anthems of Hell.

If humanity cannot be reclaimed

By Your Mercy and great Love

Deservedly we should be struck

By Vengeance from above.

Many dread the Final Day,

And the Crack of Doom

For others the Apocalypse

Will never come too soon.

‘Lift up your heads, be glad’,

Fools shall bray no more

For at last the Master comes

To thresh His threshing floor.

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Philosophy is Dead?

(Post originally published Septmber 5, 2010)

Reading a little more about Hawking's latest theory that the Universe did not need a God to set the Big Bang in motion as presented in his new book “The Grand Design”, (see my previous post), he has also dared to make the bold statement in the introductory sections that “Philosophy is Dead”.

According to Hawking, the importance of presenting the theory why or how the universe came into being was reserved for the philosophers, but that field of enquiry is now “dead” as it has not kept up with modern developments in the world of science, especially in the field of physics. So now, philosophers are redundant as scientists have become now the sole leaders in the quest for knowledge.

I think Hawking has misunderstood a very important concept: “Philosophy” comes from the Greek “philosophia” = “love of wisdom”. “Science” comes from the Latin “scientia”= “to know”.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, “science” is defined as: “the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.”

“Philosophy” is defined as: “the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.”

When you consider these definitions, scientists basically collect new data about our world and the universe, while philosophers study the nature of the new knowledge presented, obviously to find the wisdom in it.

It was always the job of scientists to present us with new knowledge, but philosophers too will always exist to find the truth in the information the scientists present and if it follows sound, logical principles. Hence the reason why philosophers cannot keep up with physicists like Hawking who claim that the “Law of Gravity” is useful evidence that there need not be a God for the Universe to exist or the Big Bang to occur, and that everything occurred via “Spontaneous Creation” with no need to have a Creator present. Where is the “wisdom” in Hawking's statements? As I mentioned in a previous post, there had to be a great Authority at work to create the Law of Gravity--Nothing begets Nothing. The very existence of mathematical equations used by scientists displays that a Great Mind is at work since everything discovered concerning the workings of the cosmos can be explained by numbers. They had to be created by Someone, and the fact that numbers have no end displays this Being is indeed infinite.

Hawking in earlier writings claims the triumph of human reasoning will come when man can find the 'perfect theory' of why or how the universe came into being. That will never happen for the simple reason man cannot discover how God or the Great Being created matter, or the Big Bang, from nothing. It was done by the power of His Will, and no physical evidence of this Great Act of creation can be discovered, especially as we still haven't found the physical boundaries to the universe, with all our knowledge.

Let's take a quick look at the Bible for a moment, since Hawking says philosophy, the “love of wisdom”, is dead and foolishness is alive and kicking:

“And he said to man: Behold the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom: and to depart from evil, is understanding.” (Job 28:28)   Hawking does not fear or believe in a traditional God, so he is definitely lacking in wisdom.

“The fool said in his heart: There is no God.” (Psalm 52:1) (Self explanatory.)

 

“As a house that is destroyed, so is wisdom to a fool: and the knowledge of the unwise is as words without sense.” (Ecclesiasticus 21:21) This explains why Hawking's comments do not make sense to me.

“Every man is become a fool for knowledge, every artist is confounded in his graven idol: for what he hath cast is false, and there is no spirit in them.” (Jeremias 10:14) Has Hawking become a 'fool' for knowledge? Certainly seems that way.

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A Pathetic Demise to a Brilliant Career?

(Post originally published September 5, 2003)

 Recently, the famous theoretical physicist Steven Hawking announced he had changed his mind about the existence of God and claims in so many words that He does not exist.

Before I wrote a counterargument to his theory, of course, I would have to read what his theories were in the first place, so I discovered the following Press Release published by Reuters and posted on Yahoo news: 

Yahoo Press Release: 

  “By Michael Holden Michael Holden – Thu Sep 2, 9:08 am ET

LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.

In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, Hawking says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," Hawking writes.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."

Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, cosmology and quantum gravity.

Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.

He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.

He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."

Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.

"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.

(Editing by Steve Addison)”