Is there Eden

For Christians who believe the answer is positive definite, but the British physicist Stephen Hawking is the opposite - the belief in heaven was just a good scary tale of the dark, he said. This assertion teachings once again confirmed its position rejecting religion and warned against the belief that God created the universe. Hawking gave an extensive interview with the British newspaper "The Guardian", which recognizes that to some extent his views were influenced by his own combat neurological disease. Because it is a physicist wheelchair from his youth age as suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It is characterized by progressive degeneration of motor neurons - cells in the spinal cord and brain, leading to paralysis and death. "For 49 years I live with the likelihood of premature death.'m Not afraid of it, but in no hurry to die. Has so much to do before," said 69-year-old scientist. "For me, the brain is just a computer. It stops working when its components fail. No Heaven or afterlife for damaged computers - this is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark," says British genius. Fighting disease untreatable and inevitably fatal headed young scientist to the works of Wagner. But ultimately caused him suffering so much more to appreciate life, despite gloomy prospects. Main interests are related to Hawking cosmology. Previously, he advised mankind to avoid any contact with alien life forms as they can be dangerous. "Extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists elsewhere in the universe, not just planets, but perhaps in the center of stars or even in interplanetary space. Universe has 100 billion galaxies, each with hundreds of millions of stars. In this vast world is hardly the only Earth a place where life has evolved, "said physicist. "The real challenge is to determine what they look like aliens. Probably most of them are like microbes or simple organisms - such life forms dominated Earth for most part of her story Some alien life forms, however, can be intelligent and a threat to humanity, "warns 69-year-old scientist.