I have always admired SH. A brillant mind, one of the finest on this earth. If he is correct and honestly I don't doubt that he is I don't mind so much for myself. I have lived a good life thus far.
But I mind because I hope to see my mom again in heaven. To come to grips with the fact that she is gone, truly gone and I will not see her again in the afterlife is very painful, very deep, hard to grasp.
I think for many, including myself that we want to believe in heaven that when we die life goes on. Isn't that funny? Dead but we live forever. It sounds so odd. I think we humans simply cannot accept death, of being totally gone or a loved one gone. Done, over, finished. So we created God, made rules on how to get to heaven and told ourselves of course we could live forever in this perfect place, it sounds so silly. A perfect place, to live forever.
I remember when my mom died, walking outside in the Sept air it was a beautiful day with blue skies and I wanted to scream at the world, HOW DARE THE SUN SHINE, HOW DARE THE BIRDS SING, the most wonderful, loving, kind person just died. How could the earth not just turn dark and die? But of course it did not. Just another day to most of the world, just those that knew my mom were effected.
And I mind for all the animals that I have loved and have loved us.
Their sweet perfect souls, heaven if there is one should just be for them.
But again that would be silly, to live forever in a perfect place.
Why live here on earth at all? Why not just live in heaven with God from the beginning?
I think we are just afraid, afraid to die, afraid to know that it is the end, afraid to let love and comfort go.
If there is a God he is called many names and has many rules that are different in other parts of the world that were created by man to suit his needs.
I think SH is correct. It makes me sad for I so want to see my mom and loved ones again and the pets but logic is logic and make believe is well make believe.
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/afp/20100902/c...KbTBlpNd2a4g-- AFP/File – God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments …
By Michael Holden Michael Holden – Thu Sep 2, 9:08 am ET
LONDON (Reuters) – God did not create the universe and the "Big Bang" was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics, the eminent British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book.
In "The Grand Design," co-authored with U.S. physicist Leonard Mlodinow, [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]Hawking[/COLOR][/COLOR] says a new series of theories made a creator of the universe redundant, according to the Times newspaper which published extracts on Thursday.
"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," Hawking writes.
"It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going."
Hawking, 68, who won global recognition with his 1988 book "A Brief History of Time," an account of the origins of the universe, is renowned for his work on black holes, [COLOR=#366388 !important][COLOR=#366388 !important]cosmology [COLOR=#366388 !important]and [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 !important]quantum [/COLOR][COLOR=#366388 !important]gravity[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR].
Since 1974, the scientist has worked on marrying the two cornerstones of modern physics -- Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which concerns gravity and large-scale phenomena, and quantum theory, which covers subatomic particles.
His latest comments suggest he has broken away from previous views he has expressed on religion. Previously, he wrote that the laws of physics meant it was simply not necessary to believe that God had intervened in the Big Bang.
He wrote in A Brief History ... "If we discover a complete theory, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason -- for then we should know the mind of God."
In his latest book, he said the 1992 discovery of a planet orbiting another star other than the Sun helped deconstruct the view of the father of physics Isaac Newton that the universe could not have arisen out of chaos but was created by God.
"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 evidence that the Earth was carefully designed just to please us human beings," he writes.
Hawking, who is only able to speak through a computer-generated voice synthesizer, has a neuro muscular dystrophy that has progressed over the years and left him almost completely paralyzed.
He began suffering the disease in his early 20s but went on to establish himself as one of the world's leading scientific authorities, and has also made guest appearances in "Star Trek" and the cartoons "Futurama" and "The Simpsons."
Last year he announced he was stepping down as Cambridge University's Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, a position once held by Newton and one he had held since 1979.
"The Grand Design" is due to go on sale next week.
