Stephen Hawking, who is arguably Britain's most famous
living scientist, says there is no heaven or afterlife that many believe in; to him, it is a mere fairy story according to him, he said he regards the brain
as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. So he is certain that there is no heaven or
afterlife for broken down computers; it is more of a fairy story for people
afraid of the dark, he declared
Stephen Hawking who
dismisses belief in God in an exclusive with the Guardian, shares his thoughts
on death, M-theory, human purpose and our chance existence
In a dismissal that underlines his firm rejection of
religious comforts, Britain's most eminent scientist said there was nothing
beyond the moment when the brain flickers for the final time.
Hawking, who was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at
the age of 21, considers the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an
omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos as mere
creation of human.
To him, the universe is governed by science and not the
believed creator. Speaking on this, he says “Science predicts that many
different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is
a matter of chance which we are in; Science is beautiful when it makes simple
explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.
Examples include the double helix in biology, and the fundamental equations of
physics." He concluded
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