Nuggets from Cosmos, Creator, and Human Destiny

In a BBC interview, Hawking said that his next ambition is to “go into space.” We have already pointed out the impossibility of travel to other habitable planets ever being physically achieved. More recently, he expressed that desire again and explained the urgency behind it. He believes that populating planets scattered throughout the cosmos could offer the only hope for human survival. Here we confront two problems for Hawking, who seems at least to be a Deist, and for all other evolutionists who claim to believe in God:

1) Doesn’t the belief that space has other intelligent, human-like occupants (a necessary corollary to the theory of evolution) do away with the entire idea of a supernatural act of creation and thus with the God of the Bible? If “spontaneous generation” could happen on planet Earth, why not on millions of other similar planets? The clear implication from Genesis to Revelation is that the creation of Adam and Eve was a unique event, never having occurred before nor would ever occur again, anywhere in the cosmos.

At this point, we are not arguing for acceptance of either the biblical account or of the atheistic account but simply showing their incompatibility with each other. How can any “believer” share in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence when such creatures could not exist except through a creative act of God? Yet what the Bible says from Genesis to Revelation reveals that the search for human-like creatures outside of Earth, which is a large part of the space program, of necessity denies the existence of the Creator God in whom all Christians supposedly believe.

2) Moreover, one wonders why there should be any concern for the survival of man or any other species. What does it matter whether we survive if we are what we are told we are by those who are popularly looked to as the spokespersons for today’s “science”? If we are simply the accidental product of a “big bang,” plus chance, plus billions of years of something called evolution working through “natural selection” (which has supposedly brought into existence every living thing), of what importance could man’s brief survival be in the billions of years of evolutionary history? The cosmos doesn’t care, so why should we, a few unimportant creatures unknown to the cosmos, have any concern for our own survival? Did natural selection implant that concern within us? If so, why?