Hawking the theologian – his sentences and nuance are strangers. - CathNews New Zealand

Hawking the theologian – his sentences and nuance are strangers.

Friday, May 20th, 2011

The study of philosophy and theology are a waste of time according to one of the world’s greatest living scientists, Stephen Hawking. ‘Most of it is based on a complete disregard of observational evidence and modern science.’

Nuance and a Hawking sentence are, by necessity, strangers, says Adam Clarke Eastes in his critique of what he calls “yet another ‘very rare’ interview with the world famous physicist.” Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21, and can communicate only by twitching his right cheek to produce of a computer generated voice.

“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. 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.”

Read:

Ian Sample -The Guardian: Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven; it’s a fairy story
Adam Clark Estes -The Atlantic Wire: Stephen Hawking’s Annual Assault on Religion

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