(September 24, 2014 at 2:47 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote: It's distressing that theists have tried to use Hawking as a fellow theist, while at the same time many of those same theists deny large parts of biology, cosmology, and other sciences.
Wait...What?
Theists dishonest?
Tell me it ain't so.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.