Science 10-Yr-Old Prodigy Is Out to Prove Atheist Stephen Hawking Wrong: “God Does Exist”

William Maillis is not your typical 10-year-old.
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At an age when most kids are focused on beating the next level in a video game, or working toward actually hitting the ball in their baseball game on Saturday, William is consumed with becoming an astrophysicist.

Most kids dream of becoming a firefighter, a doctor, maybe an astronaut or a teacher, but William isn’t just dreaming of becoming an astrophysicist, he’s already becoming one.


The boy from Pennsylvania, graduated high school in May of 2016, at the age of 9. He is currently enrolled in community college classes with the plan of attending Carnegie Mellon University this fall.

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According to his father, Peter Maillis, William began speaking in full sentences at just seven months old. He was doing addition at 21 months, and multiplication by the age of 2—a time when he was also reading children’s books, and writing his own nine-page book, “Happy Cat.” At four years old, he was learning algebra, sign language and how to read Greek, and when he was five, he read an entire 209-page geometry textbook in one night, and woke up solving circumference problems the next morning.

This kid is literally a GENIUS, and has been declared one by Ohio State University psychologist, Joanne Ruthsatz.

William’s desire to become an astrophysicist is rooted in his strong faith beliefs. He disagrees with some of Einstein and Hawking’s theories on black holes, and has his own ideas to prove about the existence of the universe.

The son of a Greek Orthodox Priest, William wants to prove that an outside force is the only thing capable of creating the universe, which means that “God does exist.”

Hawking, however, has a much different assertion. “Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation,” said the renowned physicist. “What I meant by ‘we would know the mind of God’ is we would know everything that God would know if there was a God, but there isn’t. I’m an atheist.”

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William’s parents say they have never pushed him toward his studies or this God-proving endeavor, but rather that he’s a pretty “normal” 10-year-old.

“We’re normal people,” Peter explained. “And he’s a normal kid. You can’t distinguish him from other 10-year-olds. He likes sports, television shows, the computer and video games like everyone else.”

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Well I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty pumped to see this “normal,” God-fearing boy unravel the theory of one of the most prolific scientific minds of all time—for as stated by the great scientist Matthew Maury, “The Bible is true and science is true, and therefore each, if truly read, but proves the truth of the other.”
 
I don't see anyone ever proving the existence of God. But God being real makes much more sense to me than the universe exploding into everything from nothing. That's on par with medieval logic that maggots were sprouted from dirt.

One of the prevailing theories is that the universe continually restarts, it begins with the big bang, it ends with the heat death and then all the decimated matter clumps together to create a new big bang.
 
One of the prevailing theories is that the universe continually restarts, it begins with the big bang, it ends with the heat death and then all the decimated matter clumps together to create a new big bang.
That still doesn't explain where everything came from though. It had to have started somewhere. Something can't come from nothing.
 
If God exists, and man is created in God's image, why did God plant a tree that would corrupt his self-insert? Does this conclude God is corrupt? That God isn't pure? Did God manipulate humanity for his own purpose?

:thinking:

And assuming God exists, why hasn't he intervened? Is he perhaps asleep? Or does he not exist?

Checkmate, theists. Give me my scholarship.
 
Kid's father is apparently a Greek Orthodox priest, so he likely pushes the idea of religion and God at home. Not saying it's a bad thing to have a religion or believe in a deity. However, it isn't the job of science to prove or disprove the existence of deities or metaphysics. All and all, religion and science should stay at least 50 meters fron each other at all times.
P sure it's better than what most 10 year olds do with their time.
 
I don't see anyone ever proving the existence of God. But God being real makes much more sense to me than the universe exploding into everything from nothing. That's on par with medieval logic that maggots were sprouted from dirt.
There are theories as to what mechanism brought about the Big Bang, but most of them require you to take it on faith and the ones that don't haven't shown any of the evidence that supports them. In short, it doesn't really matter if you believe in the scientific or divine answers for this, at the root you just have to believe.
 
In short, it doesn't really matter if you believe in the scientific or divine answers for this, at the root you just have to believe.
Exactly. Which is interesting considering most atheists ridicule the religious for taking everything on faith, failing to realize they're doing the same thing with science.
 
Trey Parker said it best.

"Out of all the ridiculous religion stories — which are greatly, wonderfully ridiculous — the silliest one I’ve ever heard is, ‘Yeah, there’s this big, giant universe and it’s expanding and it’s all going to collapse on itself and we’re all just here, just because… That to me, is the most ridiculous explanation ever."
 
I remember another story about a prodigy like this, his name was Bartram Ehrman and his evangelical community just knew he was going to prove the historical accuracy of the Bible. He studied the new testament in the original languages, using the oldest sources available aaaaand he's now an atheist. His work is excellent reading though.

You realise that applies to God just as much as it applies to the universe?
Why? God is omnipotent, he is everywhere at once, while our universe obviously has to play by the rules of time and space, God doesn't.
 
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You realise that applies to God just as much as it applies to the universe?
Yes. But in believing that a God created the universe and it's motion is to acknowledge that the universe came from something we may never understand, instead of saying it came from nothing. I have no problem in accepting that we will never how the universe came about. Perhaps the universe really is expanding and contracting, starting and restarting in an infinite cycle of big bangs. But science will never prove where everything came from. So far all we have is "it came from nothing", and thus it makes much more sense that something far greater than we can imagine created all we see here today.
 
As science is oft to say: prove it.

But seriously, good on the kid for having a solid aspiration to strive for. Most boys that age are too busy discovering their wiener.

I don't really care whether there is a god or not but damn it would be great if for one singular reason that he can irrefutably prove the existence or non-existence of God: to end the insufferable debate between loud creationists and smug euphorics.
 
Kid's father is apparently a Greek Orthodox priest, so he likely pushes the idea of religion and God at home. Not saying it's a bad thing to have a religion or believe in a deity. However, it isn't the job of science to prove or disprove the existence of deities or metaphysics. All and all, religion and science should stay at least 50 meters fron each other at all times.

I hope that when he gets older he realises that proving the existence of God is not what science is about. But at age 10 he probably just wants to make his parents proud of him and hasn't had the time to form his own ideas very clearly yet. He may be a genius but he's only been on this Earth for a decade.
 
Pretty soon he'll discover girls and all of that stuff about God will be placed at the back of his head.
 
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