Posted on 05/16/2011 12:41:52 PM PDT by Former Fetus
British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark, in his latest dismissal of the concepts underpinning the world's religions.
The author of 1988 international best-seller "A Brief History of Time" said in an interview with The Guardian published on Monday that his views were partly influenced by his battle with motor neurone disease.
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first," he told the newspaper.
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
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Saw him speak at a Iron Sharpens Iron Conference.
You believe first, then the proof follows. God does not reveal Himself to the idly curious.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen”.” Hebrews 10.
Mr. Hawking is unquestionably brilliant, but not as brilliant as he thinks he is. Contemplation of the nature of the universe and everything in it seems quite impressive ... until it is matched against an infinitely longer contemplation, with an infinitely larger perspective.
Rage against one’s Creator is not a philosophy of life, but of death. Best wishes, Mr. Hawking, but consider rebooting your “computer” before it is completely broken down.
He must have a very sad life, if all his experience (and he is a brilliant thinker) leads him to the conclusion that all he is, all his mind and spirit is no more than a computer that will break someday.
Many look at the world around them as tangible proof.
Remote cultures with no exposure to Christianity tend to develop a religion as pure chance for all creation seems a greater leap in faith.
Suddenly a guy I once thought a real smart guy i find to be a simpleton/
Glory be to GOD and his son Jesus Christ.
“What about the Babelfish?”
“and God vanished in a poof of logic.”
God knew exactly what Hawkings was going to live to be and think, didn’t He?
Yes, God is omniscient and He knew what Hawkings was going to do. But God gave him, like He gives everybody, a chance to make a decision for or against Him. It was up to Hawkings to make that choice.
“What about the Babelfish?”
“and God vanished in a poof of logic.”
Woe to him whose intellect stands in the way of making peace with his maker and claiming his eternal inheritance and destiny!
Having listened to my fair share of liberal colleges professors, I believe that the utterings of the more vocal atheists, drip with the rebellion that abides in their hearts and their darkened understanding.
How could you peer into galaxies and not come to the conclusion that God is the Eternal One?
Most of the people I know don’t spend much time trying to prove something we already believe in. And for many of us, we have absolutely no doubts of His existence.
And the story is Stephen Hawking is a fairy.
Do you die when your computer fails, or do you just get another computer? In the same way, you don't die when your brain (or body) fails - you just get another one, from the same Source that you got this one.
Mr. Hawking may not be as good ascientist as he pretends to be. He certainly hasn’t read Blaise Pascals Wager.
“He’s just pissed because he’s paralyzed”.
If he thinks it’s hell being paralyzed, he ain’t seen anything yet!
Yea, quadriplegia can make you grouchy! WHen he's burning in hell, will he scream in his robotic computer voice?
Such a kind and caring person you are!
What gives you the certitude that Mr. Hawking will "burn in hell"??
Judge, jury, and executioner...all rolled into one, you are!
Religious zealotry has and continues to cause wars.
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