Science vs Spiritual

(Hey so I didn't notice until I got done writing this that I wrote this blog over next weeks readings...oops.)
In my opinion, the two readings, "Parables of the Kingdom" and "Is Everything Determined?", were more different than similar. Stephen Hawking seems to favor the scientific theories of Darwinism, quantum mechanics, and Newton's laws.  He says, "I want to suggest that the concepts of free will and moral responsibility for our actions are really an effective theory in the sense of fluid mechanics. It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory." He states his questions of, "How can relatively simple and compact theory give rise to a universe that is as complex as the one we observe, with all its trivial and unimportant details?" "If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory, why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones? Why should anything we say have any validity?" "If everything is determined, what becomes of free will and our responsibility for our actions?" I feel that two out of the three questions he asks, he answers them with scientific theories, relating the first question of our complex reality is determined by simple sets of equations of quantum mechanics and the fact that "there is not just a single history for the universe but a whole family of possible histories.  For his second question of what we do  is determined by a grand theory, why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones, his answer is Darwin's theory of natural selection: "Only those individuals who drew the appropriate conclusions about the world around them would be likely to survive and reproduce." Finally his last question, if everything is determined by a grand theory, what becomes of free will and responsibility, he answers differently than he does in the first two. He states that we cannot predict human actions because there are too many variables and particles; and "even if we could solve the equations, the fact of making a prediction would disturb the system and could lead to a different outcome."
The second reading from the books of Matthew and Luke, obviously, being from the Bible, revolve around the idea of the divine creator, God, and all the proclamations He has made. In The Ten Virgins, the message is that God can come back at anytime and we must be prepared for his arrival and not be fools like the five that didn't bring the extra oil for their lamps and essentially were too late to be delivered to heaven. "For ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." In The Ten Talents, the point was that we are all given opportunities, may they be great or little, we are given them and it is our responsibility to multiply it and use the what we are given to please God. When God gave the three men the talents he already planned that if each of them multiply's what I've given them, no matter the large amount of five talents or of one talent, if they do what I ask of them I will reward them. Unfortunately the man with the one talent, in fear and greed of loosing it he hid it. When it was time to repay God for blessing them with the talents, the man who hid it could have been blessed and rewarded with the same things the others were, but he could not even handle the responsibility of one talent so he was cast into hell. "For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." It then explains the differences between heaven and hell. Finally, in The Prodigal Son, the message is that even though the youngest son took all the money his father gave him and spent it all on gambling and prostitutes, the father's joy for his sons survival overcame his disappointment for the loss of the money and the running away of his son. His love of his son was greater than his love of money. "It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad; for this, thy brother, was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found." Now I'm not completely and one-hundered percent sure that my explanations are what these scripture mean exactly, but this is what I could make of them. I feel that these scriptures related more to the question of free will and responsibility. It doesn't matter where we come from or what we started with, but essentially what we make of what we got and what are our priorities and if we do believe in God, we have to be ready and obey him if we want to pass into heaven. I feel like this would have answered Hawking's question of free will and responsibility if he chose to accept the spiritual side of the argument instead of purely the scientific.