Spilled Milk

I recently started reading Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time, and it is incredibly interesting. Hawking tells the story of general relativity, quantum mechanics, black holes, and all that jazz. Though the book is praised generally for its ability to make these crazy concepts easy to understand, it still is a pretty difficult read – at least for me.

However, it’s less important that you understand everything that Hawking is saying, and more important that you know the end result. You don’t need to be able to describe the photon double slit experiment to know that light can behave as both a particle and a wave.

I’m starting to become better versed in these concepts, and surprisingly it evokes a lot of thoughts about religion. Creationism and the big bang, the existence of a divine tinkerer of goldilocks constants, and other seemingly unexplainable concepts find me turning to theology and apologetics.

I have always considered myself to be agnostic when it comes to religion, and ultimately a lot of this is making me even less convinced of either side, but it’s interesting to see what logical arguments come about.