Heaven is a Fairy Story?

[stephen]

I very much think not!!


British scientist Stephen Hawking has branded heaven a "fairy story" for people afraid of the dark, in his latest dismissal of the concepts underpinning the world's religions.

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

"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 significantly in the nearly quarter century since the publication of his seminal work on the cosmos.

In "A Brief History of Time" he suggested that the idea of a divine being was not necessarily incompatible with a scientific understanding of the Universe.

But in his 2010 book "The Grand Design" he said a deity no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the universe in the light of a series of developments in physics.

Heaven is a 'fairy story', says Stephen Hawking

As the author notes, Hawking's stance has hardened. This reflects more of the state of a man's heart than an appeal to objective proof. In truth, it is not a matter of being afraid of the dark, it is a question of "light," and in particular regarding our appearing before the Creator who is dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto
(1 Timothy 6:16).

 

[caprice09]

The Pride of Science

"Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has but a short time." How vain then is the boastings of fools, professing to be wise; the futility of arrogance, puffed up in pride; how empty the taunts of slander and mockery of those who are soon to die? Faithful followers of their father in the flesh, rather than their Father, who is Spirit, whose grace is the establishing and sustaining of their lives!

How foolish the theories of so-called science, insisting upon the "fact" of evolution. Science mocks religion as a superstitious institution of those afraid to accept the reality of life; yet science, which boasts itself upon the foundation of truth and fact promotes theories to substitute those facts not known or able to be proven, and slanders all who will not concede to the "truth" of their findings. Science, which cannot so much as fully catalog the diversity of life found only upon this planet, nor perfect a diet or medicine to maintain the health of human and animal anatomy, nor predict the weather with any dependable degree of consistency, nor discover the secrets to the beginnings of life in plants or animals or humans

(the dissection of a process into phases does not constitute the reasoning and explanation as to how these changes occur; wherefore it is written, "As you know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all." And, "So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; and should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knows not how. For the earth brings forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest is come." And again, "The wind blows where it lists, and you hear the sound thereof, but cannot tell whence it comes, and whither it goes: so is every one that is born of the Spirit."),

boasts of its knowledge beyond its ability to prove, as though they admit the workings of a greater intelligence then their own; making "natural selection" the function of a deity, the existence of which their labors and studies attempt to disprove; and thus, making itself a superstitious institution of those afraid to admit the reality of God.