I have a problem understanding why a brilliant man who decides after serious, honest thought that God does not exist, will burn in hell.
I have an easier time understanding why a wicked man would but, well this has always bothered me: if God made us who we are, he knows what he made and is, the way I see it, largely responsible for what we are and do.
I know it will be argued that WE make choices but..do we really? Always? I dunno...
We lost a great man. I think part of his legacy should be his warning to us, the not nearly as brilliant people of the earth that he seemed to really love.
He warned us that we were screwing up the planet, that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of mankind, as would trying to find alien life, an inevitability he was really afraid of.
3 quotes by Hawking:
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
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