Is There A God?

Brief Answers to Big Questions
                                             - By Stephen Hawking
Chapter 1 : Is there a God

     Recently I've yet again read another book, this time . As I read the first chapter: Is there a god? I found it quite interesting, and I shall briefly explain it without the big words.
Firstly, as I shall clarify as Prof. Hawking did, the 'god' here is not any particular god or gods, but rather just asking the question generally, is there a being that created the universe? So the Bible, Quran, Vedas, scriptures and whatever your religions have, because I am not here to start a religious debate, but to talk about science.
     So, to see if someone, or something created the universe, we must first analyze how it was created. We know that there was a Big Bang, which means that the universe started out as a infinitely tiny particle, or even nothing, and expanded with an immensely immense amount of time to form the universe. This can be proven from the observation that the universe is expanding. So if we go back in time, figuratively, then the universe is shrinking, so there must be a time when it was just a dot.
How does everything come nothing? One may ask. It's much more simpler than you think. It is observed to be possible that in a total vacuum, particles can appear, with one being a proton, neutron or electron, and the other become a negative state of the said particle that appeared. It may sound impossible but yet it is true and makes sense. Zero is equal to one minus one after all.
     Now we agreed that the universe started with the big bang, some might ask: maybe god caused the Big Bang? According to Einstein, when the gravitational pull of something becomes stronger, time becomes slower. This is because the movement of time depends on the speed of light. If you go really fast, time seems to slow down, and you become heavier, just to sustain its place as the fastest thing in existence. Since light can be slowed down be gravity, time also slows down to allow it to travel better. That is why in a black hole, an object with infinite mass and hence gravity, time stops along with light. I know how it sounds crazy. Time waits for no man, right? That's true, but they certainly wait for light.
     Hence, if the universe is to shrink down to an infinitely small space, it would have infinite gravity, as the amount of positive matter in the universe is more that the opposite. Since x divided by 1 over infinity is infinite as long as x is positive. Hence, before the universe, there was no time for a universe to be created. There was no time for anything to even exist. Hence, god cannot exist.
     Anyway, that is the simplified version of Prof. Hawking's explanation of why god does not exist. However, while he was focused on whether or not someone or something created the universe, I have to say that he overlooked the possibility that maybe instead of something creating the universe, that something created us instead. The possibility of the said scenario is well, quite high. Now I have no degree in biology, but there is indeed a possibility of us existing without external help within the 4.6 billion years that Earth had been through. Of course, the chance of this happening is incredibly low, no doubt about that, yet low chances does not mean it is impossible. Now that I think about it, the thing that we should be most appreciative about is the fact that we are alive as a species, since the chance of life to just exist without external help is extremely low. Though some may argue that the chance for our existence is impossible due to our intelligence and abilities, including several unexplainable phenomenon in our world, hence there must be a creator. To that I ask, if our simple world requires a creator to be possible, who created the creator? To have a creator so powerful that he/she/it can just create all of us at will, shouldn't we also question how did an entity of such power come from? Shouldn't it also have a creator? Then who created said creator's creator? As you can see, this assumption soon turns into an unending paradox. However, there is still the possibility that another lifeform helped in the process of our evolution, or perhaps they kickstarted the process of life on Earth by dropping the acids and DNA when they did not exist. Although this may explain why life could appear so quickly, it does not mean that they're god, as they must go through the same process of DNA randomly appearing and the random process of evolution. Henceforth, the possibility of a entity powerful enough to create humans is impossible, they could just be a species of themselves that are being curious and tried to simulate and observe the process of evolution at best. However, the thought that we are just test subjects are quite unsettling, isn't it?
     All in all, as explained, there is no powerful being above us judging us for everything we do just because he/she/it created us, hence there is no god. I however don't quite believe that this would change anyone's ideas, and that his should change your morals. Just because there is no one watching over us doesn't mean that you can do what you want. In fact, religions are not supposed to tell you how the world is created, they are supposed to tell you what is wrong and what is right. As long as you don't criticize anyone else's religion and do what is right, you're good to go.