The Grand Design
Book by Leonard Mlodinow and Stephen HawkingWikipedia
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Nov 2, 2026
John YatesHOST
As adults looking at a board game, we rightly assume that someone designed the game, that there is a purpose behind every piece.
John YatesHOST
We know that we aren't just supposed to throw the pieces any which way, but are instead expected to use those pieces according to their purpose, one given to them by the game's creator, often laid out in some kind of book that explains the purpose of each piece.
John YatesHOST
When we play board games, we almost always try to play according to their design.
John YatesHOST
We follow the rules because we understand that playing along with the purpose of a game is more fun than just making it up as we go.
John YatesHOST
The implications of this kind of vague view are ironically very clear.
John YatesHOST
God has no intentions for us.
John YatesHOST
The book of Genesis disagrees, and it insists on the claim that God gave his creation a purpose.
John YatesHOST
And I want to suggest this morning that our lives are more meaningful and full when we live alongside the purpose God designed.
Alex MersonGUEST
It just reminded me of a quote I was thinking about recently.
Alex MersonGUEST
I think it's because Stephen Hawking in his book, The Grand Design, the quote that often gets when he says, what is it? Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Alex MersonGUEST
At least from that statement, he's trying to posit that we know about the laws of nature and they explain everything and therefore they're jumping to the conclusion that there was therefore no God to say, let there be light.
Alex MersonGUEST
There was no God to create anything.
Alex MersonGUEST
It just reminded me of a quote I was thinking about recently.
Alex MersonGUEST
I think it's because Stephen Hawking in his book, The Grand Design, the quote that often gets when he says, what is it? Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.
Alex MersonGUEST
At least from that statement, he's trying to posit that we know about the laws of nature and they explain everything and therefore they're jumping to the conclusion that there was therefore no God to say, let there be light.
Alex MersonGUEST
There was no God to create anything.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And we know that philosophers used to ask the question, "Where all these things come from? How from nothing something occurs? Why is there something rather than nothing?" All these questions not only philosophers ask, but also scientists are asking.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Why there is something rather than nothing? Where all of that come from? What is the origin of cosmos? Is there any creator, or, or the cosmos can generate its own birth? Stephen Hawkins, in his book, uh, The Grand Design, The Grand Design, he said, "Because there is a law like, uh, gravity, uh, the world can, uh, can, can begin to, uh, to create itself outside, uh, uh, out of nothing." Because there is a law like gravity, the cosmos can, can, uh, can, can generate its own birth out of nothing.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So it's still caught in all these notions of being and non-being and birth and death.
Thich Nhat HanhSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Let us begin with a sutra.