Posted on 03/23/2018 3:15:56 PM PDT by truthfinder9
Famed scientist Stephen Hawking died earlier this week at the age of 76. He is largely regarded as one of the most important physicists in history. Of course, the tributes came pouring in. While most commemorated his genius and determination to transcend the debilitating effects of ALS, others attempted more nuanced commentary. Like USA Today which took Hawking’s death as opportunity to remind us of the physicist’s view that “Heaven is a fairy story.”
Hawking, who died at 76, spoke candidly in a 2011 Guardian interview about what he believes happens when people die. He told the Guardian that while he “wasn’t afraid of death,” he was in no hurry to die.
“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail,” he said. “There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
It should come as no surprise that Hawking was not religious. In Hawking’s 2010 book, The Grand Design, Hawking said a creator is “not necessary” in the narrative of how the world was created.
While such an approach — eulogizing Hawking by highlighting his disbelief in an afterlife — has sticky philosophical ramifications, others chose to have a little fun with it. Like God (on Twitter).
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I pray he is now happily surprised. It seems so counterintuitive, counter-thought, and rigidly closed minded to conclude that there is no meaning or reason for our existence or the existence of anything. As an aside, some years ago I was in the room with my father when he breathed his last breath (just he and I), and I could see and feel the relief, happiness, and release in him, and I literally felt his soul leave the room. I have many years of education in science, practice medicine and do research, and I know like I know I have hands and eyes that what I felt was real. There is so very much we have no clue about.
I don’t know about the Universe, but I don’t give a rat’s ass one way or the other.
Stephen Hawking was a high priest of Scientism, which is fake science squared.
He spent his career dreaming up fantasies to explain existence and our universe, and using convoluted, tortured mathematics to justify his delusions.
In other words, he was a run-of-the-mill, modern cosmologist.
Newton didn't change the world, he MADE our modern world.
... People just don't realize ...
I find it impossible to find a single thing he did to change (or improve) our lives. Nothing but theories. No tangible product.
Newton was a Calvanist and knew the Lord.
Not according to Stephen Hawking.
He was a good science fiction writer.
Thank you. Beat me.
I do.
I put Newton above just about any scientist except, maybe, Tesla.
Tesla was of a different ilk. He had blazing insight, but never the theoretical ability to build on it. As a result, he was pretty much bypassed in the development of practical physics.
I stand to be corrected.
I’m not intending to belittle Newton but he gave us the tools to describe and predict what the world does. He didn’t change anything but gave us the ability to understand and often predict what would happen under different circumstances. That, in turn gave us understanding.
He created our modern scientific outlook, which accounted for the technological advancment of western society, and those paying attention, from his time until ours.
Certainly we might note the impact of the Quantum revolution, but I think this might be seen as an elaboration, or refinement, of the Newtonian World View. Anyway, it started with Newton.
I wasn’t aware of that.
Thanks.
Well...
I’m talking about the guy that died last week at 76.
Tha angry man should have hoped to be correct.
He wasn’t.
Even Aristotle, who did not have the benefit of the Gift of Revelation, had a profound understanding of God and His attributes. Read his Metaphysics.
Imagine what it was like when Aristotle met Jesus Christ. Do you think he was not given a choice to accept Him as his Lord and Redeemer? I’m thinking that he might have heard words like, “well done, good and faithful servant.”
We don’t know what Stephen Hawking’s final relationship with Jesus Christ was, but that should not prevent us from praying for him, with the words of Jesus Christ, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”
“[23] And turning to his disciples, he said: Blessed are the eyes that see the things which you see. [24] For I say to you, that many prophets and kings have desired to see the things that you see, and have not seen them; and to hear the things that you hear, and have not heard them.” Luke 10:23-4
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“Stephen Hawking was a high priest of Scientism, which is fake science squared.”
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