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.”
 
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.

"It came from nothing" applies equally to a divine creator (or space aliens from another universe, for that matter), though. It's not inherently more sensible to believe that a divine creator sprang into existence from nothing than to believe that the universe sprung into existence from nothing.

It doesn't matter whether you go with science or with faith, you're still stuck with an origin story which is incomplete. You either need to explain how God (or some other creator) came into existence or you need to explain how the the universe spawned itself (or was spawned by another universe for which we have no origin story). Otherwise, you always end up at a point where a question of "what came before" remains unanswered.
 
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God didn't come from nothing, he came from his father who was already divorced once and has a brother!

Also, I think the universe is still expanding and currently scientists say it will keep expanding. So its not a cycle, but a universe that will end in everything going in all directions away from the center forever, cold and lifeless.

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.

He is just a dick.

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INB4 He awakens the all mighty Cthulhu from his slumber and claims it is god. The twist of religion nobody ever expected.

(All jokes aside. I really want to watch this kid and see what he manages to come up with as proof of god. We never know with these kinds of nutballs.)
 
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.
Poking Catholics for an answer to this seems to essentially be:
It's lonesome at the top and God created mankind as beings with free will because angels lacked it. Now, that brings into question that whole devil being a fallen angel thing, but w/e.
[Heresy Below]
If God is omnipotent and omniscient, he's bound by his own nature. Humans are the crown of his creation because they aren't omniscient and thus have free will, not bound by their knowledge of the future. That free will also allows them to detach themselves from God completely unlike the rest of his creation, though He doesn't really want everyone to do that since only through his omnipotence can you be granted eternal life. Still, humans wouldn't be the shining example of freedom that they are if he didn't create them with the ability. God knew we'd be corrupted, but when you have eternity to mess around, you can spend a few eons watching "Humanity, the complete box set".
 
I feel bad for him that like most child prodigies including Mozart he is actually being exploited to promote his parents beliefs and benefit not his own. There are many more things that he could work on that are scientific challenges currently trying to be solved that are within the realm of material possibility. You can't prove that Yahweh exists any more than you can prove Allah, Ahura Mazda, the Demiurge etc. exist.

The real question is was it god or was it Gods? :cunningpepe:
 

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I'm afraid I'm going to have to remain extremely skeptical of all of the claims of the boy's achievements. Reading a 209 page geometry textbook at the age of 5 in a single night and understanding the material? If they're going to make things up, they should have made it believable. Kids can be smart at a young age and do college work long before they're 18 if they've received enough attention, but graduating high school at 9 is really pushing the limits of believe-ability. I mean, what did he do, skip elementary and middle school? Do public schools actually allow you to start well before the age of 5 or did they somehow arrange a way for him to condense his yearly coursework down into a few months (hell, you could probably do this just by cutting out the busy work but I digress). Call me an A-Log if you will, but I've watched the videos with the kid in them and he comes across as mentally immature and this seems like a massive fraud. I've seen whiz kids before and they don't look they have autism. Something is wrong with this entire story and I'd really like to know what it is.
 
I'm afraid I'm going to have to remain extremely skeptical of all of the claims of the boy's achievements. Reading a 209 page geometry textbook at the age of 5 in a single night and understanding the material? If they're going to make things up, they should have made it believable. Kids can be smart at a young age and do college work long before they're 18 if they've received enough attention, but graduating high school at 9 is really pushing the limits of believe-ability. I mean, what did he do, skip elementary and middle school? Do public schools actually allow you to start well before the age of 5 or did they somehow arrange a way for him to condense his yearly coursework down into a few months (hell, you could probably do this just by cutting out the busy work but I digress). Call me an A-Log if you will, but I've watched the videos with the kid in them and he comes across as mentally immature and this seems like a massive fraud. I've seen whiz kids before and they don't look they have autism. Something is wrong with this entire story and I'd really like to know what it is.
Almost all of elementary and middle school education could be accomplished in about two years if the kid is reasonably smart. The reason this doesn't happen is because schools are just daycare centers, not education centers. Almost everything between learning arithmetic and reading through highschool is a complete waste of time learning the same stuff over and over, unless you have a sub 85 IQ.

That said I'm sure they're exaggerating the shit about the geometry text.
 
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