Hawking: Fuck God

[Guest Furball]

Kill The Afterlife: Hawking: Fuck God

 

 

The concept of an afterlife is inhumane and immoral. Belief in the continuation of your "soul" or consciousness after death is wishful thinking. Belief in an afterlife devalues the one life that actually exists: this one.

 

 

 

 

Hawking: Fuck God

 

Hawking has something to say: 

 
LONDON - God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new book.

In a hardening of the more accommodating position on religion that he took in his 1988 international best-seller "A Brief History of Time", Hawking said the Big Bang was merely the consequence of the law of gravity.

"Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist," he writes in "The Grand Design", which is being serialised by The Times newspaper.

"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going," added the wheelchair-bound expert.

Hawking has achieved worldwide fame for his research, writing and television documentaries despite suffering since the age of 21 motor neurone disease that has left him disabled and dependent on a voice synthesiser.

In "A Brief History of Time", Hawking had suggested that the idea of God or a divine being was not necessarily incompatible with a scientific understanding of the Universe.

But in his latest work, Hawking cites the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting a star outside our own Solar System as a turning point against Isaac Newton's belief that the Universe could not have arisen out of chaos.

"That makes the coincidences of our planetary conditions — the single Sun, the lucky combination of Earth-Sun distance and solar mass — far less remarkable, and far less compelling as evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he wrote.

Hawking argued earlier this year that mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonizing space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats.

He also warned in a recent television series that mankind should avoid contact with aliens at all costs, as the consequences could be devastating.


 

 

[midniterider]

"He also warned in a recent television series that mankind should avoid contact with aliens at all costs, as the consequences could be devastating."

 

Xenophobe.

[pantheory]

I didn't see where Hawking specifically said "fuck god." He has a fairly wide extent of popularity and I don't think he would say anything so vulgar to jeopardize that, but if so I wouldn't be too surprised.  This supposed statement, not shown in quotes, may have just come from the link's blogger himself thinking he was paraphrasing  Hawking, while trying to "jazz up" his article.

[LogicalFallacy]

"He also warned in a recent television series that mankind should avoid contact with aliens at all costs, as the consequences could be devastating."

 

Xenophobe.

 

Any alien species capable of crossing the stars would be so more advanced than us to render our greatest weapons no more than toys. And given the human propensity for violence, any contact could set of a war should the humans decide to try a preemptive strike. And we won't get Independence Day style victories. You need plot armor for that, not reality.

 

I think before humanity takes to the stars we need to sort our own shit out first. This planet is dying - by 2020 66% of vertebrae species will be extinct. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/27/world-on-track-to-lose-two-thirds-of-wild-animals-by-2020-major-report-warns 

 

We also have global warming, if we don't act soon it will be too late... if its not already.... and evidence points to God not saving us this time round!

 

Now that I ruined your day you may go back to what you were doing