"The Grand Design" (Review: A Grand Let Down)

“The Grand Design” by Hawking (Review)

First, let me just say, it was a big let down for me but it was only two-hundred pages so “The Grand Design” although not so grand, and I got it for half price, was a quick and somewhat interesting read, although he followed Carl Sagan's design, in The Dragons of Eden. On the other hand, it wasn't complicated, and he got into the history of things—where this theory and that theory came from, had he not done that, the book would have only been sixty-pages; that part was somewhat old, but still interesting, yet where the design was that threw God out of the picture, I lost it. Here I was looking for the death of God, and found God made more than one Universe, by gosh, he created a larger supreme being than I had ever imagined. Where this proof is, he never really tells you, he kind of goes around in circles, drops a few concepts, theories, ones we all kind of know or heard about, but leaves it up to us to believe that his end predict will do what he says it will do: eliminate God; and here I’m trying to connect gravity and Electromagnetism, and a weak nuclear force, and a strong nuclear force, and so forth and connect all these dots, and were are we after I turn the last page, back to where we started; he does put an alien here and there gives some science fiction writers some data to use on their next short stories in mathematics and quantum theories, but God is still alive. The Design of his new universe is somewhat there, and the ones behind ours and all those other ones, that he just briefly mentions are out there, we have to take him at his word, it’s called faith, in that he knows what he’s talking about; so, as these universes expand, they kind of recreate themselves, like the aliens are trying to do by snatching humanity’s women and trying to clone themselves (this is of course my interpretation of his cloning process for the universes out there we never knew we had, but with his theory). I'm just going on and on because I wanted to read something concrete for once in a science book that doses what the author says it is suppose to do; he does draw his support from folks like Sagan and Darwin, but they’ve not proven anything concrete either; he kind of downgrades Einstein for accepting God as the sum of all things, and gives him credit for starting the ball rolling but I get the impression, he thinks he’s wiser than Einstein (who’s to say?). Anyhow, I read his Black Hole book, again a theory, but better than this one.

9-18-2010