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.”
 
Good luck proving the Greek Orthodox version of God exists you little faggot. How embarrassing would it be if he did prove the existence of God, but it turned out to be Krishna?
Of all the gods to prove, the Hindu pantheon is among the more metal groups. Isn't their space/time god essentially ultra chaotic-neutral, undefeatable, and responsible for completely destroying each universe every time one pops up?
 
In, like, the 1950s.
I always wanted to be a super-villain as a kid.
I hope he succeeds. Atheists would be super pissed if a ten year old proved the existence of God, I can already see the twitter spergouts.
If that happens how scared do you think they'll get when they realized they're idiots? If they can attain such self-awareness.

And this kids name? Albert Einstein.
Fuck I hated that chain e-mail. Every idiot in school would quote it.
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 think it boils down that religion deals in the supernatural and hence isn't something science can test. Plenty of religious people are educated and highly successful scientists. Norman Borlaug to name one.
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.
Atheism is like a religion but for arrogant unwashed idiots.
Give the little creep all he needs to pursue his goals, the Salt Mine needs some quality content, if he fails it is still possible we will end up with a supervillain or at least the next unabomber.
That's fine by me. As long as he targets fedora fuckers.
 
But which god? Which faith? What if he proves it but it is not the god of any faith or mythology at all?

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.

Rinse and repeat.

 
There's something a little tragic about cases like this. The kid is not going to grow up to have a normal social life, that's for certain. Regardless of your IQ, the changes the brain goes through during puberty affect you anyway and tend to turn you into a little shit (limbic system reward center vs prefrontal cortex control etc etc). If he goes through with his plan of attending Carnegie Mellon University in two years, he's going to be with people who have no tolerance for that mindset, and anyone who is his age won't be able to relate to him due to the sheer intelligence difference. I predict this turning out like another young genius at a campus I'm familiar with: him reviled by the entire student body and most of the faculty, with a healthy dose of most people hoping he cracks under the pressure. Granted, that's not a guarantee and I really hope he doesn't have to deal with that, but it's what I see as the most likely outcome.
 
What if Stephen Hawking was God, and he was just saying he was an atheist so this kid would be inspired to finally prove it to the world at large without a miracle?
Really makes you :thinking:

but more seriously I hope the kid has at least pretend friends
growing up different to your classmates can be tough but growing up about fifteen years younger than your classmates will probably kill you
 
I don't doubt that there are kids who are geniuses, but some of that stuff that his parents are saying has got to be a lie. Kids don't speak full sentences at seven months old. It's physically impossible at that stage of brain development. On top of that, speech processing and development in the brain is completely unrelated to logical reasoning that would be used in math.

The whole reason you're hearing about this is because of the parents. He likely is pretty smart, but his parents want more. They're the type of person that lives vicariously through their kid's achievements, even if they have to make them up. That's why they're telling the world outrageous lies like full sentences at seven months.
 
I don't doubt that there are kids who are geniuses, but some of that stuff that his parents are saying has got to be a lie. Kids don't speak full sentences at seven months old. It's physically impossible at that stage of brain development.
I think that's actually a thing that happens, can't remember the medical term. Ironically it's usually a sign of severe autism.
 
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When was the last time a child prodigy grew up an did anything important, anyway? Hormones are stronger than brain cells, and most get destroyed by puberty. They either burn out because they can't relate to anyone, or they squeak by and go into some academic field and fade into the backdrop with the rest of the lab coat army.
 
It constantly baffles me beyond words when people act as if the concept of a deity and scientific theories have to be in opposition. It's simple logic; if God created the universe, then he would've had to impose the physical laws under which the universe operates. Acting as if the two are at odds is like refusing to believe that the construction of a house has to include tools to construct said house with.
 
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