Matt O'Reilly, PhD

The latest atheistic rage against God came with publication of Stephen Hawking’s new book, The Grand Design, co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow.  Hawking is reported to argue that “the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”  Self-originating creatio ex nihilo, that is his explanation for the origin of the universe.  I’m hardly equipped to interact with Hawking on the scientific aspects of his argument, given that I have neither been trained in that field nor read h