When Stephen Hawking wrote his best-selling “A Brief History of Time” in his quest to do away with God, the renowned Cambridge mathematician had to invent a second kind of time, which he called “imaginary” time.

The imaginary time was a necessary posit because Hawking knew that if there is the time we know of as part, present and future, then there must be a beginning of time and that means in turn there must be a creator of time. But that creator is exactly what Hawking wanted to do away with.
Dr. Hugh Ross is an astro-physicist, not a mathematician, but he and Hawking both wrote best-sellers on multiple aspects of the God question. Ross also is the founder of Reasons To Believe (RTB), an excellent apologetics think tank with an emphasis on relating faith and science.
“That God created the time dimension of the universe implies that he could create other time dimensions. Therefore, God could operate within as many time dimensions as he chooses,” Ross writes today on the RTB web site. If you have time — no, not a joke — I heartily encourage you to give a read to Ross on God and time.
I’m not sure it’s quite accurate to say Hawking wrote his book in the effort to do away with god. Was this ever his stated goal?
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I’m not aware of any occasion on which Hawking professed belief in the God of the Bible. Are you aware of any reason to think Hawking did profess such a belief, or even acknowledge that believers can have a reasonable basis for their belief?
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You made it sound like disproving God was his goal. I’m not aware that was his goal at all. Are you?
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