Posted on 03/21/2018 4:49:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
The ashes of Professor Stephen Hawking will be interred at Westminster Abbey near the grave of Sir Isaac Newton during a thanksgiving service later this year, a spokesman for the abbey said.
The 76-year-old passed away "peacefully" at his home in Cambridge last week according to his family, after battling motor neurone disease for many decades.
Very Reverend Dr John Hall, Dean of Westminster said in a statement: "It is entirely fitting that the remains of Professor Stephen Hawking are to be buried in the Abbey, near those of distinguished fellow scientists.
Sir Isaac Newton was buried in the Abbey in 1727. Charles Darwin was buried beside Isaac Newton in 1882. Other famous scientists are buried or memorialised nearby, the most recent burials being those of atomic physicists Ernest Rutherford in 1937 and Joseph John Thomson in 1940.
"We believe it to be vital that science and religion work together to seek to answer the great questions of the mystery of life and of the universe."
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So why would an atheist want his ashes there?
Because it’s right next to Issac Newton!
ML/NJ
throw in a large coil of copper wire and you have a perpetual energy scheme
Maybe the Crown wanted to honor him by interring him next to Newton, Darwin and other great English scientists.
Wasn’t Newton born on Christmas?
Or a Black Hole magnet. (Oprah may visit)
So in his passing he chose to be a hypocrite and further contribute to global warming via cremation? LOL
Have they put his Motorized Wheelchair with the Digitized Speech Computer on Letgo yet?
Wow..only $200!
Ernest Rutherford - now there’s a scientist!.
So, they are trying to punish or humiliate him?
What does an athiest need with an abbey? /paraphrase kirk
Dilly, dilly.
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This is ghoulish and sick!
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I think that one of the strip clubs which he frequented would be more appropriate.
why do you think that?
McCain bought it.
Westminster Abbey is a museum for famous scientists. It hasn’t been a house of Christian worship for a hundred years, if ever.
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