is there heaven or afterlife？

Atheist: Stephen Hawking said 'there is no afterlife' and that there is no need for God to explain our existence Heaven is a ‘fairy story for people afraid of the dark’, Professor Stephen Hawking suggestd yesterday. As well as saying there is no heaven or afterlife, the renowned scientist said that our brains switch off like ‘broken down computers’ when we die. His comments upset some religious groups, already angry at his statement last year that the universe was not created by God. Professor Hawking’s latest remarks came in an interview in which the theoretical physicist told how he had learnt to live in the shadow of death since being diagnosed with motor neurone disease aged 21
The disease, which is incurable, was expected to kill him within a few years. Instead, he said, it ultimately led him to enjoy life more. The 69-year-old Cambridge University academic said: ‘I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. ‘I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. ‘I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. ‘There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.’His remarks are more radical than those laid out in his 2010 book, The Grand Design, where he asserts that the universe is governed by the laws of science and did not need a ‘creator’ to bring it into being. In the interview Professor Hawking – who will today give a lecture entitled ‘Why are we here?’ at the Google Zeitgeist meeting in London – was asked: ‘Is our existence all down to luck?’ He replied: ‘Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.’
In answer to another question, he said people should use their time on Earth to fulfil their potential, saying: ‘We should seek the greatest value of our action.
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