The first from an unusual source - a Republican who actually realises that there are economic issues that are important:
http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/16/frum.huckabee.gop/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Secondly from Stephen Hawking:
"I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark".
In 2010, Hawking told US TV anchor Diane Sawyer that "science will win" in a battle with religion "because it works."
"What could define God [is a conception of divinity] 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".
I do not always agree with Stephen Hawking (though who am I to compare myself with a scientist of his enormous calibre?) - though all the above sounds sensible to me personally. Where I differ is that I believe the universe to be infinite - even void exists - so there is essentially no beginning or end. Nor are these two concepts necessary, nor do we need a "big bang" - you merely accept the continuum.
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