no physical explanation yet. when i talk to leonard he says you know, leonard says one day we ll have an explanation. i say that s a promissory note. in the current economic situation i don t cake promissory notes. larry: faith doesn t require proof? sometimes when people set up some dichotomy, science versus physics i don t quite get it because the grand design is about what the modern theories of science say about the universe and if you want to believe something on faith you can. we don t we don t claim to prove in the book there is no god or tell you not to believe in god. we just talk about the answers of modern science to those two questions, how did the universe get here and why are the laws what they are? larry: how about those who say, an astronaut would say, look, is nothing the only thing is that blue planet. and how can you say nothing created that? that that came out of nothing? those rivers?
physical world. at the end of it he said there are areas of the human spirit untrammelled by the physics. things of art, things of beauty. at the end of the day the light beckons ahead and the spirit surging within our natures respon respon responds. what he meant by that is there s a lot more to us than merely physics. even m theory, that there s something transcendent. human beings desire at the core of their being. larry: deepak, if people talk to a heavenly father and believe from that talk they get solace, so what? yes, nobody objects to that. on the other hand, as father spitzer said, human beings have a need for meaning. now, you know, leonard and stephen hawking in the book categorically state that this is a deterministic universe, that therefore, free will is an illusion. by saying that, they also imply
another is, stephen hawking is gd s gift to all of us. thank the creator he provides us with such men because they re a blessing in disgui guisguise chg all of us to question the integrity of belief systems. do you agree with that, deepak? i do. belief is a cover-up for insecurity. you only believe in things that you re not sure about. if i asked you the question, do you believe in electricity, you d say that s a ridiculous question, or gravity. i think your experience of god, knowledge of god is more important than belief in god or faith. faith is the ability to step into the unknown. that is what real faith is. to be open ended. and you know, things like physics and mathematics cannot even explain how biological organisms function as an integrated whole. how does a human body think thoughts, play a panel, and make a baby all at the same time?
he asked a question at one point, what breathed fire into the equations of physics so that they would have a universe to describe? and i thought that openness reflected in the question larry: could have been god? it could have been god, it could have been something else. he was open to the very possibility. i think by foreclosing the possibility of god, in other words, answering that question with the universe, alone, the new book gets into a little bit of a problem. in fact, a big problem. it doesn t quite answer the something from nothing problem that really arises. because if the universe or the equations of physics or m theory is going to breathe fire or existence into itself, then it literally is going to have to bring itself out of nothingness. in other words, if the equations of physics produced the universe that is going to bring itself into reality, you re going to
have to explain, how could something come from nothing? how could the equations of physics produce this? larry: simply by saying there was a creator? i would simply say you should remain open to the creator, otherwise if you don t you re really going to have to say that something came from absolute nothingness and that is a real difficult thing. larry: well put, well stated. we ll get deepak s thoughts and the panel will be with us the rest of the way. science the enemy of religion? is religion a threat to science? we ll answer these questions ahead. [ male announcer ] your first day. you try to lie low, get the lay of the land. but then autoblog.com calls your interior lexus quiet. and automobile magazine goes comparing you to a cadillac. so much for the new kid fitting in with the rest of the class. the all new chevrolet cruze. starting under $17,000. get used to more.