REALLY??!!??
An avowed ATHEIST???
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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Never understood the publics fascination with this guy. I think it had more to do with handicap than his intellect. There are many scientist, and non-scientist, who have contributed far more to science than Hawking. But I do admit that I have enjoyed several comic routines with impressions of him.
He wants to be next to Charles Darwin. They are probably together now as I type.
“Never understood the publics fascination with this guy.”
Tension between strong brain trapped in a weak body.
Intelligence that can’t express itself in spoken words.
How do you have an affair with your nurse without sex?
Weak man who thought he was god.
Take your pick.
He now knows the truth about God.
Why?
Neither Newton nor Darwin were atheists.
so what
An avowed ATHEIST???
There’s about a 0.3% chance that he was...
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