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.”
 
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.
The kid obviously has autism. The only question is why the parents/people with WAY too much time and religious feelings are encouraging it.
 
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.
when chris was 1 week old he called barb a monkey
 
Atheist: "Lol if God exists prove it"

Theist: "The act of belief is an act of faith. It inherently cannot be proven and is a matter of your conviction and will. God never wanted a church so it is not my responsibility to prove my faith, or to convert you. It it is yours to find or leave behind."

Never got the fact that the religious are always out to 'prove' existence. Science and faith are seperate parts of life. If you believe, you don't need proof. I just find looking for proof of it folly.

I have known atheist scientists believe in some sort of God the deeper they went as the coincidences for things were too much and I have found scientists who were religious go the other way. Faith is a highly personal and interpretive act. You can't prove it and if you're looking to prove It, you are probably looking for it yourself.
 
"God" doesn't even have to mean "a deity" but a force that causes everything to exist and be. Not to sound like a gay hippie, but there is a balance and an underlying logic (or an attempt to follow what we call 'logic') to almost everything, even if we can't see it. But then again, there are things that don't seem logical but still happen at a measurable frequency and yadda yadda yadda. To me, God is just the name we give to every force and phenomenon that makes all that was, is, and will be because it's much easier to understand when we frame it as a single entity rather than everything.

Several philosophers and religious thinks, whose names escape me at the moment, have tried to compromise earthly knowledge with faith, if Truth (what actually is the answer) can be arrived through only faith or science, if the two are mutually exclusive or arrive at the same conclusion, or if one must bow out if the two conflict. Early church doctrine was, all things considered, very heavy on logic in arguing for points of their faith, so I don't think the kid is going to break any new ground if that's the route he's going. If he's going abstract, then maybe. If he's going to use "science", then good luck.
 
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.
God created humans to be loved. So if they couldn't disobey him it wouldn't be actually love, just slavery. (That's what my pastor said anyways)
 
If God is the highest power and atheism means not believing in a higher power, does that mean that God is an atheist?

"For us, God is the highest perception, but not unto himself" - Corpus Hermeticum
 
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.
Smarts in and of itself isn't worth that much is I guess also a part of the problem, and these kids probably don't learn to develop anything else to rely on.

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.
The reason they're at odds is more to do with methods than the scope and the purpose of science. God isn't really science in the same way string theory really isn't science. No one has yet come up with a way to make falsifiable predictions based on the existence of such a thing. Fortunately science is ever changing, and that too will change the moment someone does come up with an appropriate experiment.
 
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