To show how the greatest minds are often the most myopic, here is a recent news story out of London:
"Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos.
In an interview published Monday in The Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old says the human brain is a like a computer that will stop working when its components fail.
He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Just because HIS vision of the cosmos has no room for Heaven does not mean anything at all - that is nothing more than an opinion by someone who does not know for sure - because no one can "know" for certain. Now, if Hawking had died, and had been dead a few days, then came back to tell what it was like, maybe THEN his opinion on the matter would have some value.
But more to the point is the syndrome Hawking suffers from, as do many "genius" types --- the inability to see outside his narrow area of expertise (myopia). Hawking says there is "no room for Heaven" in the cosmos. But who ever claimed that Heaven was in the cosmos at all? That would be to say that God, Himself, resides within the boundaries of the cosmos. But since the cosmos were created by God (according to most religions), then it would seem that He - and His Heaven - are outside the cosmos.
As for the human brain being like a computer, that may well be true. But then, even religious people understand the brain dies. We are not talking about the brain, or any other organ. We are talking about the soul. If Hawking intends to equate the brain with the soul, then he has absolutely no concept of the spirit that lives within each of us.
Throughout history, geniuses have been wrong more than they have been right (i.e. the Earth is flat, or that the Sun revolved around Earth) - particularly when taken out of their intellectual realm. Einstein, for example, could not figure out his own taxes. And Hawking cannot figure out religion.
So, maybe he should just leave it to those who do understand, like Einstein's accountant understood taxes.
And among the noted physicists, Hawking is low on the totem pole compared to Albert Einstein, and Einstein believed there was "room for Heaven" in the cosmos. His exact words on the subject are as follows:
"I believe in [a] God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists."
"In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say there is no God. But what really makes me angry is that they quote me for the support of such views."
"I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangements of the books, but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God."
Just for the record, Mr. Hawking, Man does not yet know the scope of the cosmos - we can only see a small part of it. That is like standing on a point of land in the middle of the ocean and saying, "The entire world must be ocean because that is all I can see." Also for the record, when my computer crashes, the internet is still there, as is everything I ever transmitted over it. You cannot SEE the internet, or TOUCH it - but it is there. And so is everything I ever inputted...
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