Review of “Eye of God” by Aeternus Costin

Score: 91+/100 (9.1+ out of 10)

Eye of God is a fascinating, controversial, and thought-provoking book by Aeternus Costin. It takes both a skeptical and conscientious glimpse at the scientific, religious, theological, and philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God (or a god).

Now, this book is sure to raise some questions as well as some eyebrows. It might even raise some fists. Not everyone is going to agree with some of the statements, arguments, and conclusions drawn herein. However, we live in a country in which freedom of speech, thought, and opinions are not just allowed but celebrated. The same with healthy debate and discussion.

This book centers heavily on a statement made by the late great 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.... It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

(This statement was written in Hawking's book titled The Grand Design)

The author draws the bold conclusion that Hawking made an oversight in making this statement: that gravity doesn't disprove the existence of god, but that gravity is god himself. Don't shoot the messenger, ok? We're just reporting what the book says.

Let us do our best to explain what the author is trying to say. Phew... here it goes...

In 1983, Stephen Hawking and James Hartle co-authored a work titled “Wave Function of the Universe.” In this work, Hawking and Hartle concluded that time did not exist prior to the Big Bang and that all the known universe originated from a singularity (an area of infinite density and gravity) like the center of a black hole.

Furthermore, we have religious, theological, and philosophical descriptions of God like him being a mysterious force that is all-powerful (omnipotent), omnipresent, and eternal.

The author then looks at gravity and concludes that it fits all of these criteria. It's actually a very interesting assertion and argument, albeit a pretty strange one. However, consider this: of all the powers and fundamental forces in the universe—gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear—gravity is the one that outlasts the rest. It is the only force that always, eventually, wins. Event the nuclear forces fail against gravity eventually, as what happens during the end of a star's life.

Gravity is also the only force that doesn't involve particles, as the author so eloquently explains.

Lastly, if we're taking Hawking's earlier claims at face value, gravity was also there in the beginning before time as we knew it began—before any of the other forces came into being. It is also always acting and, thus, is omnipresent. So, according to the author, gravity doesn't invalidate the argument of God's existence, it is—in a sense—the actual God.

The author further argues that a lot of the other problems with the existence of God, like the fear of judgment/hell, divine wrath, and the problem of evil, become inconsequential when coming to the realization that God isn't a conscious person but a cold, dark, invisible, mysterious force.

Well, we found ourselves thoroughly amused!

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