A creationist has said that Professor Stephen Hawking is a fool for thinking that there is no God – and adds that he has the Bible on his side.

Ray Comfort, a New-Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist – who did not pursue higher education after leaving school at 16 – says the physicist and cosmologist is committing ‘intellectual suicide’ by denying the existence of God.

On his weekly video programme, The Comfort Zone, the minister was responding to Hawking’s recent comments in Spanish paper El Mundo that he was an atheist and that God was merely created to fill in the gaps of early human knowledge.




But as Comfort’s co-presenter introduced Hawking as ‘one of the greatest minds alive today’, Comfort interjects with: ‘He’s not. The Bible says he’s a fool.

‘The Bible says he who denies God’s existence is a fool, and if we say the guy is intelligent, then we are denying what scripture said.’

Professor Stephen Hawking (Picture: Getty Images)

He’s right of course. The book of Psalms says: ‘The fool says in his heart, “There is no God”. They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.’

It is not known whether Comfort believes Professor Hawking is also corrupt, abominable, and up to no good.

Comfort continues: ‘You’ve got someone who professes to be an atheist, and we know there’s no such thing as an athiest, because you need absolute knowledge to say there’s no God.’

Comfort and Co’s argument is slightly diluted at the beginning of the video when there is momentary confusion over whether they are talking about Hawking or horror writer Steven King.