Have any major Christian intellectuals responded to Stephen Hawking's "The Grand Design"?
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God and Stephen Hawking, by John C. Lennox, is a popular direct reply to The Grand Design.
Alister McGrath calls it "a brilliant response," and the book won an Award of Merit in Christianity Today's 2012 Book Awards.
Whether it "makes sense," as you say, to Hawking, is perhaps debatable. But Lennox is no slouch: he's a Professor at Oxford University, prominent Christian apologist, and author of many books.
Lennox, as well as several other apologists, responded to The Grand Design in article form as well:1
Nonetheless, the most prominent direct response to Hawking's book appears to be Lennox's God and Stephen Hawking.
1. Other similar resources are listed on Apologetics 315.
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The Last Superstition By Edward Feser addresses this.
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Modern Physics and Ancient Faith
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John Lennox's book: Gunning for God - Why the New Atheists are Missing the Target directly covers and quotes this exact passage from Hawking you quoted, and addresses it. I am reading it at the moment.
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