Sometimes our children go on to do amazing things, but most of them don’t grow up dreaming of a career in astronomy. William Maillis, an 11-year-old prodigy, has set out to disprove Stephen Hawking’s claim that God does not exist.
William Maillis may have appeared to be a typical infant — until he began forming complete phrases at the tender age of a few months. His father predicted that William would become even more successful than he was. William Maillis, a Pennsylvania native, consistently stood out from the crowd. William had an arithmetic aptitude at the age of 21 months. He was reading children’s books and doing multiplication by the time he was two. William, who didn’t find reading satisfying, even composed a nine-page short fiction titled “Happy Cat.”
At the age of four, William began studying Greek, algebra, and sign language. At age 5, he devoured nearly 200 pages of a geometry textbook in a single sitting. He was working on circumferential problems the following day.
William turned nine in May of 2016, and he graduated from high school. In the fall of 2017, William enrolled at Carnegie Mellon University.
William’s parents instilled in him a strong Christian faith in his early life. Peter Maillis is a Greek Orthodox priest and William’s dad. William wants to become an astrophysicist so that he can utilize science to advance his beliefs, as if his life hasn’t already accomplished enough. He hopes to refute the work of Albert Einstein and William Hawking by demonstrating God’s existence through scientific means.
William Maillis Is Attempting To Convince The Scientific Community That God Exists
Former member of The Hawking Triumvirate Stephen Hawking once remarked, “Before we understood science, it was natural to believe that God created the universe, but now science offers a more convincing explanation.”
William said, “I want to be an astrophysicist so that I can prove to the scientific world that God does exist.”
If you ask William, “there are these atheists who try to say that there is no God, when in reality it takes more faith to believe that there is no God than it does to believe that there is a God,” he says. Since the idea that the cosmos spontaneously generated makes less logic than the idea that something created the universe. To believe that the cosmos came into being all by itself requires greater faith than the alternative, which is to believe that the universe was created by something other than itself.
What a good thing that William wants to utilize his intelligence to glorify God, and that he knows his intelligence is a gift from God. There are divine abilities in everyone. William claimed, “I was gifted with knowledge, science, and history.”
William’s parents insist that despite his impressive academic achievements, their son is just a “normal” kid. He enjoys a wide variety of media, including video games, sports, gadgets, and TV series.
William’s prospects are excellent. If his history is any indication of his future success, he will achieve great things and teach many others. Eventually, he might be the one to show the scientific atheists how, contrary to their beliefs, science actually helps us understand God.
