LONDON -- Famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking finds no room for heaven in his vision of the cosmos.

In an interview published Monday in The Guardian newspaper, the 69-year-old says the human brain is a like a computer that will stop working when its components fail.

He says: "There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

In "Grand Design," a book published last year, Hawking had declared that it was "not necessary to invoke God , to get the universe going."

Hawking is nearly totally paralyzed by motor neurone disease, diagnosed when he was 21.

Hawking says he is not afraid of death, but adds: "I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."



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there is really no problem with hawking believes.

in the cosmology of life such believes are allowed by God.  but all the same once soul sheds the physical body through the process of death  soul will be presented with a whole new cosmology operated by God and by that time there will be no time for philosophical  or scientific deliberation or queries. soul will come face to face with the reality of life  beyond the borders of death.

then hawking may realize that a computer may cease functioning but the electricity that flows through it giving it life continues to exist.