Stephen Hawking has joined with some other interesting people such as Richard Dawkins, who assert that the concepts of God and Heaven are “fairy stories” or worse. Hawking concludes that because he hasn’t seen something that is physical; hasn’t experienced a force; or hasn’t been able to model it mathematically, that it must not be real.
I have a close friend in Tianjin who has never seen Iceland. He has never felt an earthquake; and has never convincingly modeled the process by which an island can emerge from a fissure in the earth’s surface. For those of us who have physically experienced each of these things, we are certain that Iceland, earthquakes and the emergence of islands exist. The only things that we would enable my friend in Tianjin to assert is that
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