Is Stephen Hawking’s theory of something out of nothing based on science or supposition?

He relates “the tale of how the primordial universe of hydrogen, helium and a little bit of lithium evolved to a universe harboring at least one world with intelligent life like us.”

Let’s use some of that intelligence to evaluate Hawking’s belief that primordial nothingness managed to evolve into material somethingness. Also to ponder: what is it about the nothingness of a “little bit of lithium” that differentiates it from the nothingness of helium and the nothingness of hydrogen?

One need not be a scientist to conclude that three nameable chemical elements, each distinguishable from the other, can’t qualify as mere nothingness.

Another inconvenient question lurks in Hawking’s primordial universe with its threefold nothingness: What action or condition triggered and then coordinated the interaction of those chemical elements? Hawking points to the laws of gravity and quantum theory—but their existence only adds to his difficulties: What (or who) designed these laws to exist in a universe of nothingness?

To resolve skepticism that our exquisitely calibrated, inhabited world is the product of happenstance, Hawking would persuade us about a “multiverse” of parallel universes. The multiverse notion is not merely speculation on steroids, it is demonstrably impossible mathematically—when computing the timeframe (used by scientists themselves) required for random selection to meander its way through the process of materializing Hawking’s imagined multiverse (or even the observable universe, for that matter).

The impossibilities of Hawking’s multiverse evolving from nothingness are compounded by the miracle of DNA—not only its complexity but the fact that it comes frontloaded with coded genetic information. Complex coding, by definition, comes not by undirected happenstance but by intelligent design. How could one argue otherwise from science rather than supposition?

All told, Hawking’s theory of cosmology cannot be demonstrated by the scientific method—nor be explained by logic, which has as a foundational principle: ex nihilo nihil fit: “out of nothing, nothing comes.” So nothing can logically prevent a librarian from classifying Hawking’s “tale of many chapters” as science fiction.

Martin Weber, DMin

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