Earlier today, I was made aware of a recent statement written by famed and brilliant physicist, Stephen Hawking. “Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist,” he boldly proclaimed. Yet, for all he knows, everything that we know to exist may be nothing more than a few thousand lines of code on God’s universe computer. I don’t say that to minimize our importance. Regardless of our relative insignificance, our Father sent his only son Jesus to live and die on our behalf so that he may have a loving and lasting relationship with us. What I mean is this: If a virtual person, created by man in a computer, were to become self-aware, what might he think? Over time, he may discover that his entire universe, at it’s core, is made up of ones and zeros, produced through a transformation of characters output by a cursor at regular intervals. Would this virtual person then conclude that there was no programmer? Mr. Hawking, you most definitely know more about the universe than I do. But it is still just the universe.

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