Heaven Is a Fairy Tale Says Physicist Stephen Hawking

[Natalie Severn]

We die the same as dogs and go nowhere.

Thank God![mind Milton made Lucifer rather attractive]......

[Stephen Thomas]

We die the same as dogs and go nowhere.

[Carol]

Don't see what all the fuss is about......the man is right and anyone with half a brain knows it.

I have a whole brain and, therefore, know the man is wrong.

Carol

[DirectorDave]

Don't see what all the fuss is about......the man is right and anyone with half a brain knows it.

[caz]

Agreed. I've often thought that people who protest too loudly that there is no heaven believe, in their heart of hearts, that there is, but that they probably won't be going.

I've often thought that people who protest too loudly that there is a heaven don't believe it in their heart of hearts, but are insuring themselves just in case.

From the moment we are born we are terminal, but some think they were born less terminal than others. They are the ones who grow up to believe in the supernatural.

I wish them the best of British.

Love,

Mother Nature - who has always known best
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[Errata]

Stephen Hawking believes in miracles. Otherwise he never would have left his first wife, nor acquired a girlfriend so soon after ditching the second wife.

[Steven Russell]

Influential people like Professor Hawking should speak out against religion. Not only is it the biggest load of guff ever invented, it's dangerous.

Steve

[The Grave Maurice]

Agreed. I've often thought that people who protest too loudly that there is no heaven believe, in their heart of hearts, that there is, but that they probably won't be going.

[sdreid]

I don't care if Hawking believes in heaven or not but he did seem to go out of his way to express his views rather rudely. Why didn't he just say that he didn't believe in heaven and if the interviewer asked what he thought about people who did believe then he could have simply said - they're wrong.

[Garry Wroe]

How dare Hawking question a religion founded upon creationism, talking serpents and virgin births? He'll be doubting the existence of the tooth fairy next.

[DVV]

CD is right saying SH is merely expressing a personal opinion.

[Robert]

In my opinion, there is no such thing as "explaining" the universe, either scientifically or religiously.

To borrow a phrase of Mr Spock's, "It simply exists."

[Fleetwood Mac]

Heaven is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking said in an interview published on Monday.

Ah yes, the idea that faith and reason must be mutually exclusive, and reason alone can explain human existence and behaviour. The odd philosopher here and there has done a very good job of deconstructing this enlightenment idea, and no one has managed to reconstruct it with any degree of confidence.

Surely a scientist should be the first to say that nothing is certain; it's merely probable based on our experience (limited or otherwise) of the world.

[Sister Hyde]

ahahahah more ike they would keep looking without ever finding what's right under their nose

[Robert]

Americans never go to hell - they wouldn't be able to find it.