Stephen Hawking: ‘There is no heaven,’ God is not ‘necessary’ for creation

Stephen Hawking, science and sharia

Science, for Muslims, is another way of reading the sacred text.

Pay attention to Stephen Hawking’s other insight

Like Hawking, I suspect there probably is no life following this one. But I don’t really care – life in the here and now demands too much of my attention to give it much thought.

Faith and reason work together

Authentic Christian faith does not limit human liberty and reason.

Stephen Hawking and the experience of God

It is disappointing that a scientist of Hawking’s repute would take a position that because he hasn’t personally seen or experienced God, that God is not necessary or does not exist.

Stephen Hawking’s simplistic worldview

I know God lives, because I have experienced His reality.

Nothing in faith contradicts reason

Faith and reason not only coexist, but they are integrally related.

Can God and science co-exist?

Because of God, there is science

Refuse to choose between religion and science

Religion and science need not be enemies.

Yes, Professor Hawking, there is a heaven

I believe that God is the source of all knowledge inspires scientific inquiry.

Stephen Hawking’s ‘nothing but’ confidence

“Can God and science co-exist?” Francis Bacon, the father of modern science, believed they must.

Reject fundamentalist definitions of heaven and hell

Professor Hawking is rejecting a fundamentalist definition that is a fairy tale. I reject it too.

What Stephen Hawking doesn’t understand about heaven

Hawking is working with a very low-grade and sub-biblical view of ‘going to heaven.’

Stephen Hawking can imagine there’s no heaven

It is piquant to hear the apostles of doubt and reason and evidence pound the university lectern like a fire and brimstone preacher and cast all careful empirical weighing out the window when religious claims are concerned.

As Stephen Hawking knows, God does not exist, but science does

Stephen Hawking (and I) reject ‘the God of the gaps’

A God reduced to filling in gaps, or to being an electronic starter for the engine of creation is a finite God.

How does Stephen Hawking know about heaven?

I will go with Jesus and not Hawking.

Yes, Mr. Hawking, evidence should determine belief

Scientists test their own and other theories and try to find facts that support or disprove them. Traditional religion, on the other hand, usually demands blind faith and reacts negatively to facts that conflict with doctrine.

Stephen Hawking: Religion and science are both belief systems

Hawking’s answer is not the product of scientific thinking but of the belief system that he currently maintains in contrast to the belief system of those who claim there is a God and a heaven.