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Title: Heaven is a 'fairy story' says Stephen Hawking
Source: International Business Times
URL Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/146 ... story-says-stephen-hawking.htm
Published: May 16, 2011
Author: IBT
Post Date: 2011-05-16 22:19:39 by Flintlock
Keywords: Heysus, Fraud, Terrible, Lie
Views: 6943
Comments: 170

Heaven is a 'fairy story' says Stephen Hawking

Physicist Stephen Hawking has dismissed religion once again as he deemed heaven a "fairy story" aimed at appeasing those afraid of death.

The author of 1988 international best-seller "A Brief History of Time" said in an interview with The Guardian that his views were partly influenced by his battle with motor neuron 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 in an interview published on Monday.

"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."

Hawking's stance on religion has hardened since the publishing of his seminal work.

Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.

He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."

In his 2010 book, "The Grand Design" he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions -- the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass, far less remarkable, and far less compelling evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.

Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.

Read more: www.ibtimes.com/articles/...hawking.htm#ixzz1MZTleQ88

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IMO, Religion is nothing more than a control system to keep the sheeple on the reservation......Stephen Hawking agrees. Not bad company to have on an idea.

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#9. To: Flintlock (#0)

IMO, Religion is nothing more than a control system to keep the sheeple on the reservation......

I agree, but what has religion got to do with God? Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Religion is spirituality, ruined.

angK  posted on  2011-05-16   22:45:11 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: angK, abraxas (#9)

I agree, but what has religion got to do with God?

All I know is what I hear at my local 501(c)(3)Heysus groveling center and Rapture®-ready facility.

Sometimes they even knock on my door.

Flintlock  posted on  2011-05-16   22:53:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Flintlock (#10)

All I know is what I hear at my local 501(c)(3)Heysus groveling center and Rapture®-ready facility.

Haven't you heard? The Rapture has been cancelled due to lack of interest and poor ticket sales.

angK  posted on  2011-05-16   23:00:55 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: angK (#12)

Haven't you heard? The Rapture has been cancelled due to lack of interest and poor ticket sales.

I hear it's next week...I'm girding my loins in anticipation

Flintlock  posted on  2011-05-16   23:04:57 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Flintlock (#13)

I hear it's next week...I'm girding my loins in anticipation

Nope! Cancelled! What makes you think you were on the list?

angK  posted on  2011-05-16   23:10:31 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: angK (#14)

What makes you think you were on the list?

I sure hope I'm not. Spending eternity with a bunch of groveling rapture monkeys would surely be Hell.

Flintlock  posted on  2011-05-16   23:13:08 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#52. To: Flintlock, angK, ambi, Armadillo, farmfriend, Artisan, all (#15)

What makes you think you were on the list?

I sure hope I'm not. Spending eternity with a bunch of groveling rapture monkeys would surely be Hell.

I don't think you're in any danger of that happening at this point in the game.


"Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook." ~ Ronald Reagan

wudidiz  posted on  2011-05-17   1:25:27 ET  (1 image) Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#53. To: wudidiz (#52)

LOL

farmfriend  posted on  2011-05-17   1:34:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#55. To: farmfriend (#53)

Rock it Out!!

wudidiz  posted on  2011-05-17   1:46:25 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#56. To: wudidiz (#55)

Rock it Out!!

I just thought that maybe, just maybe, you would appreciate a sincere comment/question based on everything you have performed for mankind and not limited to 4um either; I want to thank you for your diligence and untiring efforts to support a single modal concept of chit-chat.

I just can't believe I get to touch a thread based on your own comment such as, Rock it Out!!; for me, since I am often kicked around and thrown into the pits of despair, you are raising my hopes for a new concept about humanity and the rising Phoenix representing all of us. I just have one (and only one) question for you; do you really pronounce 'eh as 'ah or is this a popular misnomer?

buckeroo  posted on  2011-05-17   2:00:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#57. To: buckeroo (#56)

Yeah, don't mention it. It's what I do. I inspire people.

Double dream hands!!

eh as in 'ay'

wudidiz  posted on  2011-05-17 02:17:39 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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