In an interview published in the Guardian UK, polarizing prominent physicist Stephen Hawking has devastated another notion of devotion (his 2010 book The Grand Design "asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe"), this time dismissing the concept of heaven and hell merely a week before the predicted May 21 Judgement Day or Rapture. "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"An ABC News report is quick to point out that many, if not most, Americans would disagree. "While Hawking's views on religion and heaven may be relatively consistent with the views of his countrymen, research....suggests he's at odds with the prevailing American perspective."A 2007 study of religious beliefs across the country conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life cites 92 percent of Americans as having said they believe in a god or universal spirit, while 74 percent specifically believe that there is a heaven.Is Hawking's simple atheist analogy of the brain as a machine which will cease to function just a cold hard fact? Or does it not begin cover the full spectrum of what's in store in the afterlife?
In an interview published in the Guardian UK, polarizing prominent physicist Stephen Hawking has devastated another notion of devotion (his 2010 book The Grand Design "asserted that there is no need for a creator to explain the existence of the universe"), this time dismissing the concept of heaven and hell merely a week before the predicted May 21 Judgement Day or Rapture.
"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"
An ABC News report is quick to point out that many, if not most, Americans would disagree. "While Hawking's views on religion and heaven may be relatively consistent with the views of his countrymen, research....suggests he's at odds with the prevailing American perspective."
A 2007 study of religious beliefs across the country conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life cites 92 percent of Americans as having said they believe in a god or universal spirit, while 74 percent specifically believe that there is a heaven.
Is Hawking's simple atheist analogy of the brain as a machine which will cease to function just a cold hard fact? Or does it not begin cover the full spectrum of what's in store in the afterlife?
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