"...Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools..."

I have just watched channel 4's program about Professor Stephen Hawking and his work. The program was titled 'The Master of the Universe' (talk about ironic). Quite frankly, after watching it I'm staggered. Why am I staggered?

He made a statement in the program along these lines - he has seriously proposed that the universe spontaneously appeared out of nothing, just popped into existence - all the materials just appeared from nothing and then a big explosion occurred. Now I've never heard that before from any eminent scientist - they all normally just go quiet when asked about what happened before the bang.

I'm staggered that such an intelligent man can seriously propose such a thing - when I hear things like this I'm convinced more and more of the truth of Romans 1:

22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things...
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;...

Hawking's mind has certainly become deluded and reprobate to make such a ludicrous suggestion, however intelligently gifted he is.

We really do have an awe inspiring God.

(still shaking my head in disbelief at the statement).