Stephen Hawking is considered a brilliant physicist. But via a video presentation at a meeting in Beijing he damaged his credibility. Hawking said overpopulation will turn earth into a “ball of fire” by the year two-thousand six hundred. He’s advocating for a spacecraft able to reach into the universe to find an alternate planet. We must “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Yes, he actually said that. The reality is America’s population has plummeted since the sixties. While the earth added two billion persons, we’ve nearly halved the number of malnourished people in developing countries. And we globally produce food on less land than we did two decades before. Instead of being a “ball of fire,” God is blessing our planet with enough resources to take care of everyone.
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