We recall the opening lines of St. Johns Gospel: In the beginning was the Word...and all things were made through the Word. The universal intelligibility of nature is a function of its being brought into existence by an intelligent Creator. The young Joseph Ratzinger stated the relationship as follows: the objective mind discoverable in finite reality is the consequence of the subjective mind that thought it into reality. Ratzinger furthermore observes how a peculiarity of our language discloses the same truth. When we come to know something, we speak of recognizing a truth, but the word recognition (re-cognition) implies that we have thought again what had already been thought by a more primordial intelligence. Long before Hawking used the phrase, Albert Einstein characterized his own science as a quest to know the mind of God, and in so doing, he was operating out of the very assumptions Ive been articulating. Father Robert Barron is the founder of the global ministry, Word on Fire, and the Rector/President of Mundelein Seminary. realclearreligion.org/articles/2014/12/18/stephen_hawkings_god-haunted_movie.html
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