Stephen Hawking vrs Dave Ramsey

  It has been a long week already.  Lots of things going on here in the delta, and one of my children (a grown one) in the hospital in Arkansas.  Fortuantely, my wonderful wife is there at the hospital to help him, all I have to do is keep the house together, and get the youngest one to school everyday.  With all that going on I thought I better add this post while I had a few moments… school gets out in an hour.

  Its getting tax time.  We are all gathering together the papers to see how we did.  I’ve been trying out a new accounting method that you will have to try… its great!  I added and figured all the figures the old way, and was not particularly fazed… then I did it this new way.  I added $200 to our income last year!!  Alright!!  So I refigured them, the new way again, and added $500.  I can’t wait to send this discovery to Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman.  Everytime I refigure it, we earn about $300 to $500 to our income from last year.  That’s a truth I can stand in!

  Ok… not really.  Those of you all that know me knew the truth… Danny figuring his taxes in January; that ain’t gonna happen.  April 13 is the early start day.  And, my “new accounting method,”   its bogus too.  Of course you knew that.  Regardless of how you figure your income, its still you income.  Shuffle the cows around the pasture all you want… the herd won’t be any bigger.  If you have 4 kids and three chicken legs… you’ve got a problem, regardless of how you cook it.  Now, there are people who can make your income look bigger on paper, and your debts disappear out of sight with the slight of a calculator.  Those guys do big business in the government accounting offices these days.  Yes the practice is well know, the technical name for it is “cooking the books.”

  That brings me to my subject.  Stephen Hawking has a latest book in which he claims to have removed any need for God in creation.  He says, “because there is a law of gravity, the universe can and will create itself out of nothing.” Now, Hawking is brilliant, and I am not a scientist… but I know better than that.  The statement has two major problems:

1. He says gravity is all you need to bring the universe into existence.  But, excuse me, if you start with gravity… then gravity is already here; therefore you did not start at the beginning.

2. “Gravity” is an accounting of how things relate to one another… you can’t have gravity unless there is a “universe.”  Accounting does not make money exist… neither does gravity create matter.

  I am not a scientist, so I will end this here.  If you want to find a great discussion of Hawking’s book by a fellow who does a science background go to one of my favorite sites, http://tentpegs.patrickmead.net/.  “Cooking the books” is still “cooking the books” even when its done by a brilliant physicist. 

See you next time.

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