Kirk Cameron

Sometimes I read celebrity blogger sites. Usually boring, and overwhelmingly biased in favor of liberal ideals. Today I read that Kirk Cameron in an interview with TMZ challenged Stephen Hawking who said that Heaven is just a "fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

Kirk Cameron said,

 "Professor Hawking is heralded as 'the genius of Britain,' yet he believes in the scientific impossibility that nothing created everything and that life sprang from non-life...Why should anyone believe Mr. Hawking's writings if he cannot provide evidence for his unscientific belief that out of nothing, everything came?"

And Perez Hilton basically just derides Cameron although admits he doesn't understand his point. I think it's a very good point and one that should be acknowledged. It's too easy to write him off as a crazy christian, instead of using your brain. No one is trying to 'prove' there is a Heaven. All he is doing is applying Hawking's own logic to his baseless claim. Hawking among many other scientists, will not accept a Biblical "God", because there isn't any evidence. At the same time they stand firmly with a ridiculous evolutionary theory to counter any possible intelligent design, "life sprang from non-life, nothing created everything, evolution coincidentally creating complex beings" which is inconsistent with many scientific laws. The fact that they can't even allow room for other possibilities, when they themselves have no proof, significantly reduces their credibility, regardless of their "genius" titles (at least to me and Kirk Cameron). Often times the best way to refute someone, is to truly question their own stance and/or apply their own 'rules' to them.
Basically Cameron saying, 'PROVE IT'.

 Cameron even went further:
 

"[Hawking] says he knows there is no Heaven. John Lennon wasn't sure. He said to pretend there's no Heaven. That's easy if you try. Then he said he hoped that someday we would join him...Such wishful thinking reveals John and Stephen's religious beliefs, not good science."

I've never really liked that "Imagine" song, but I like Cameron's twist on it's meaning; maybe people, maybe all those American Idol contestants, have been mistaken about Lennon's message. Too many times it seems like people hear or sing that song and feel some sense of having contributed something to the world or having accomplished some humanitarian feat. Like they are so enlightening, and they know how to end all war, poverty and strife. Listen to the lyrics though--essentially, Lennon's Utopia is a world without accountability, without anything of value, without gratitude, without ambition. Hey if that's your idea of "Heaven," that's fine with me. But I am sick of celebrities spewing the same anti-Chrisitian crap over and over just because it's the cool thing to do and will garner attention. Christianity is too easy to attack...because we won't behead you.

I never argue with people who proclaim to be atheist because in most cases, it's just not true; whether they call God "God", or Heaven "Heaven", the fact is that they believe in a higher Being, and ultimate judgment. I always go back to C.S. Lewis' Mere Christianity which follows a more scientific mind of a former self-proclaimed atheist-turned-agnostic-turned-Christian's path to understanding his faith. It makes a lot of sense and I think provides the most "proof" of a God as possible. But what scientists don't understand is that faith is not requiring proof.