It is without reason that Stephen Hawking is confined to a wheelchair and is unable to use any of his limbs. The thing that surprises us is the fact that he is still able to use his brain and intellect for scientific and mathematical calculations. However, what isn’t surprising is that fact that his human pride and spiritual blindness have caused him to become manifestly stupid when it comes to affirming the supernatural truth and the existence of God. God will not be suffered by the skinny and frail man who is not even physically able to sustain his life without the help of others, and especially not without the grace of God.

We do not insult others for the sake of insulting, but let the obvious be told when such persons’ aim is to deny the existence of the Creator for their worldly pursuits and destruction of the dignity and worth of each human being, especially those who are most vulnerable.

Ironically, Stephen Hawking advocates the idea of destruction of innocent human life because their worthlessness compare to the vastness of the universe, while he himself is being kept alive to teach such monstrosity of a lie to mankind, with his other ideas and theories that do not bring us immediate happiness on earth.

But let philosophy as a science keep in harmony with other human sciences, on the account and testimony of others who have learned the true method and approach to philosophy and metaphysics by way of Thomism.

“The philosopher is above all the guardian of the principles of reason”, Dr. Waters taught. Principles of reason are so fundamental that they cannot be proved, only defended. Some of these principles of reason include:

• Nothing can both be and not be at the same time and under the same circumstances (this is the principle of non-contradiction which is the most fundamental principle of reason).
• Whatever undergoes movement is moved by another;
• Every agent acts for the sake of an end;
• The whole is greater than its part;
• It is never lawful to do an evil act for the sake of a good end.

These and other principles of reason are the tools of the philosopher by which he forms solid judgments about the world around him.

The principles of reason are employed in every branch of true philosophy: Logic; Cosmology; Philosophical Psychology; Metaphysics; Poietics; Ethics, and the rest. All of these sciences, properly taught according to the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition, form a magnificent whole that support and complete one another.

For example, one cannot have sound notion of what is proper human behavior (Ethics) unless one has a correct understanding of what is human nature (Philosophical Psychology), or of the existence of God as our last end (Metaphysics).

Another advantage of sound philosophy is that it prevents one from bowing down before the altar of experimental science. Professor Stephen Hawking and his bogus claim that the universe can be explained without God do not intimidate a man familiar with the metaphysical teachings of Aristotle and Aquinas.

In his new book The Grand Design – which as of mid-September has sold over 36,000 copies – Hawking claims, “Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists,” and it is not necessary to invoke God as the source of all creation.

In other words, Hawking says that the entire universe came from nothing, that we have a magnificent effect without a cause, that nothing produced everything. This absurdity, which we see nowhere else in all of creation, is what Hawking invokes to explain all of creation.

As philosopher Dr. Bonnette remarked when he heard Hawking’s assertion, “This is what happens when a physicist tries to do metaphysics. He’s speaking outside his field.” The modern world in its godless ignorance prostrates itself before the scientist Hawking. The true philosopher regards Hawking as an object to be pitied.

John Vennari

A Great Thomist is Gone, Dr. Raphael Waters, R.I.P.