Posted on 03/14/2018 6:40:06 AM PDT by Morgana
He was a better icon/mascot scientist than a real one (IMHO).
Richard Feynman was far better.
And then he cheated on his wife.
Listening to him and the Fraud preach their perversions to me in the same era turned me off to anything “Wheels” had to say.
John Glenn and Capt. Sully come to mind as well.
I never bought into that it was he who was talking. I thought the same...he was used as a prop, esp. after he started going down the global warming rabbit hole. Anyone who is that intelligent, supposedly, would completely understand basic astrophysics, Keppler’s laws, etc.
There is a possibility that Steven now soars in freedom and joy among the Cosmos, and now Knows all the things he once yearned to know about.
(In another view, he may not exist anywhere in any manner at the present “time.”)
(I yet another view, he may be Gone now; but could be brought back by a power beyond his own. To one possible fate or another...)
One day, we’ll all “see.” Or not.
Okay, that’s a scary idea. Sinister, if true.
Honestly, the guy never really did anything that changed the world or anyone’s life. Well, he may have changed some lives for the worse with his atheism.
What did he do that really changed the world? Nothing
” Objects may be able to fall through black holes into an alternate universe,”
Sorry, bud, but there is only one universe.
“Hawking, a leftwing socialist, was an adamant believer of Goebbels’ scam of man-made global warming.
He also believed free market capitalism was evil and a threat to America.
In light of the above beliefs in such false propaganda, one must question his “science”...”
Agreed, and despite his theoretical brilliance, I can’t find any accomplishment of his that actually improved the lives of mankind. He didn’t invent anything and to the best of my knowledge, none of his theories have produced an invention that advanced humanity. He didn’t create jobs or wealth (except for himself) and wasn’t know for his charitable causes.
My thoughts exactly. The dudes from that show will be in tears.
>>Sorry, bud, but there is only one universe.<<
Directly to your ear from God, right?
Famed physicist Stephen Hawking definitively answered one of humankind’s grandest questions last week — What was around before the Big Bang?
“Nothing was around,” Hawking told astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson March 10 on his show StarTalk.
Well ?
Revelation 22:13
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
Agreed. And according to the movie, he was not in a wheelchair all his life, as posted by the previous poster.
Finally a post that shows this guy for what he was.
For some reason he was one of the left’s poster boys, and I’m suspecting it had much to do with his appearance as it did his personal beliefs.
I’ll miss this guy about as much as I will miss Carter, Bubba or obama.
Made me LOL - Hawking was merely caught in the transition from human to werewolf?
My prayer for him when he was still alive. Hope he's enjoying a healthy glorified body and getting answers to the questions/mysteries of the universe. To carry that deadwood of a body around most of his life and not getting into heaven would be tragic.
Now wait a minute! My kitty is pretty adamant about string theory!
And promptly busted the doors of hell wide open. Should have boned up on Dr. Stephen C Meyer to work out his logic fallacies.
He certainly was a brilliant man, and the story of how he lived a productive life despite his ALS is inspirational. He was fortunate to have a very rare form of ALS which has a slow progression, and we are also fortunate that he lived in a time when technology allowed him to communicate with us for decades after he lost his speech faculties.
His early work on black holes and his discovery of Hawking radiation were genuine contributions. Much of his later work was actually wrong, especially when he strayed into fields outside his expertise. For example, he was one of the long time doubters in the existence of the Higgs Boson, though he finally admitted that it had been proven.
The raising of his children largely fell on his first wife and hired staff, though that is true of many high achievers in science and academia who did not have his physical limitations. It sounds like his children understood and appreciated him for what he could do, rather than what he couldn’t.
As far as his marriages, his first marriage lasted 30 years and his second marriage for a decade. He remained close to his first wife until his death. Given the obstacles they faced because of his circumstances, I think we need to judge his personal life with a healthy dose of sympathy.
As far as religion, he seems to have held a mix of views throughout his life.
In A Brief History of Time, he famously said that if his favored cosmology model were correct and time did not have a fixed beginning because time did not exist independent of space, then there was “No need for a Creator”. Christian theologians (for example, Robert Russell) have actually argued that this model is the precise belief many Christians have held since Saint Augustine.
Both of Hawkings wives were fairly devout and Hawking was even seen attending church services on a number of occasions with his second wife.
His views on religion in the last few years of his life tended towards atheism, but he was never mean or dogmatic about it. In a 2011 interview for a Discovery Channel special, he was quoted as saying: “We are each free to believe what we want and it is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful.”
He undoubtedly knows the truth now, but I will leave it to God to judge his life. I for one think the world was richer because God created this man and placed him in the world to live among us.
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