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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: 6747
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.

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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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#46. To: Flintlock (#0)

If the amount of "guests" is any indication of where "God" can be found around here, then he's at the Horseshoe Casino Church.

sizzlerguy  posted on  2011-05-17   0:50:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#49. To: sizzlerguy (#46)

If the amount of "guests" is any indication of where "God" can be found around here, then he's at the Horseshoe Casino Church.

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Hard times make people desperate.

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2011-05-17   1:06:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#51. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#49)

Hard times make people desperate.

But you'd think "god' wouldn't run out of cash...or would you?

Flintlock  posted on  2011-05-17   1:10:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#62. To: Flintlock (#51)

Hard times make people desperate.

But you'd think "god' wouldn't run out of cash...or would you?

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Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen.

HAPPY2BME-4UM  posted on  2011-05-17   2:40:33 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#69. To: HAPPY2BME-4UM (#62)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for

Ah...I get it. Like when I wrote Santa a letter asking for a new bike on Heysus' birthday.

Flintlock  posted on  2011-05-17   9:20:17 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#72. To: Flintlock (#69)

Hawking doesn't FULLY discount the notion of God..

Hawking has stated that he is "not religious in the normal sense" and he believes that "the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."

abraxas  posted on  2011-05-17   10:44:04 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#73. To: abraxas (#72)

Hawking doesn't FULLY discount the notion of God..

I never said I didn't believe in god, I only question our understanding of him.

ODIN!!!

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