Imagine if Stephen Hawking spent the 50 years of adult life using the mind he has searching to cure Lou Gehrigs disease among others what we may have today.



CAMBRIDGE, England – Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is not well enough to attend a conference held to celebrate his 70th birthday, a University of Cambridge official said Sunday.

Hawking's remarkable career is being honored as part of a daylong conference on cosmology being hosted at the university.

But the celebrity scientist, who suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease, will not be in attendance, according to Vice Chancellor Leszek Borysiewicz.

Borysiewicz told conference attendees that Hawking was released from the hospital on Friday and that "unfortunately his recovery has not been fast enough for him to be able to be here."

He didn't specify the nature of Hawking's condition, although he said he believed Hawking would be well enough to meet some of the attendees over the next week.

Hawking is in a wheelchair and dependent on a computerized voice system for communication.

Borysiewicz said he hoped that Hawking would follow the proceedings via videolink.

"If you're listening Stephen, happy birthday from all of us here today," Borysiewicz said to a round of applause.

Hawking was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease -- known as motor neurone disease in the U.K. -- when he was 21. Most people die within a few years of the diagnosis, but Hawking has defied the odds and gone on to revolutionize the field of theoretical astrophysics and become one of the best-known scientists since Albert Einstein.

An expert on black holes, Hawking also gained wide acclaim for popularizing astronomy in best-selling books such as "A Brief History of Time" and "The Universe in a Nutshell."

Other speakers scheduled for Sunday include Astronomer Royal Martin Rees, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Saul Perlmutter, and Hawking's longtime collaborator Kip Thorne. Among the topics due to be discussed are supernovae, black holes, and dark matter.

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Here's what a friend had to say about Stephen H.

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Hawking, brilliant though he is, has proved Psalm 14:1. "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God..."

Soon Mr. Hawking will go the way of all men. For, "it is appointed unto man once to die and after death, the judgment."

I find it unfathomable that he could grasp within his mind, the mechanism God used to stretch the heavens across space-time and yet not see the need for a Creator/En...gineer to design and build this wondrous universe we live in.

I hope and pray that Mr. Hawking will find Jesus before it is too late for him.

Because, one day soon, he and possibly you and I will stand before the Great White Throne mentioned in the Book of Revelation and give an accounting of our lives...


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I just hope Mr Stephan is intelligent enough to have realized that.

Not everybody drinks the kool-aid.

It all depends on what's in the kool-aid.