British physicist’s ‘No heaven’ comment continues to spark debate

 
BY CARLA HINTON
Published: May 28, 2011

A California evangelist’s false prediction that Christian believers were to be taken up to heaven in an event called the Rapture on May 21 may have caused a furor around the globe, but a noted scientist’s remarks resulted in a firestorm of its own a week earlier.

British physicist Stephen Hawking, in an interview with the United Kingdom newspaper The Guardian earlier this month, likened humans to computers as he de...


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