Stephen Hawking
No deathbed conversion for atheist Stephen Hawking
By Kimberly Winston — March 20, 2018
(RNS) — The investigative site Snopes deems as false a claim that Hawking was converted by Pope Francis.
A brief history of Stephen Hawking’s atheism
By Kimberly Winston — March 14, 2018
(RNS) — His nonbelief was more of a slow simmer than Richard Dawkins' explosive ire.
Hawking says heaven is for ‘people afraid of the dark’
By Tracy Gordon — May 18, 2011
LONDON (RNS) Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s most eminent scientists, says the concept of heaven is “a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” In an interview with London’s Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old Cambridge University cosmologist said that as a victim of motor neuron disease he has lived under the shadow of […]
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