Science will win over Religion
Professor Stephen Hawking quotations quotes
In early June, 2010, Stephen Hawking was an honoured guest at an high profile World Science Festival held over several days in New York.
On June 7, 2010, just after this festival had closed, Stephen Hawking was interviewed by ABC News's Diane Sawyer.
Stephen Hawking's illness has resulted in the loss of voluntary actions throughout most of his body
and seems to only have effective control over some of his facial muscles. Given this inconvenient reality
he has to pre-compose what he wishes to say using technologies where his facial muscles movements can control the
computer based composition of his thoughts.
ABC News submitted a series of questions, in advance, to Stephen Hawking and he subsequently composed replies which could be
played back during the face to face interview in seeming direct response to questions being addressed, during the interview, by Diane Sawyer.
Stephen Hawking's responses were then not, "off the cuff," but were laboriously prepared in advance.
The interview questions sought Stephen Hawking's opinions on several topics including issues related to Science and Religion:-
"What could define God [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature. However, this is not what most people would think of that
God," Hawking told Sawyer.
"They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship. When you look at the vast size of
the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible."
When Sawyer asked if there was a way
to reconcile religion and science, Hawking said,
"There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science,
which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
In Stephen Hawking's Uber-Intellectual Universe there seems to be no room for doubt that " Science will win over Religion "!!!
In the interests of promoting an honourable truce we have placed the following scrollable panel of
" Key Spiritual Insights " from Christian sources on this page!!!
More such scrollable panels of " Key Spiritual Insights " from Interfaith Sources are available here
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