Did this really happened?

[Zidneya]

Is it true that the Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to Stephen Hawking asking him to stop his research and investigations?
Some people say it was a letter others that it was a official announcement and others say it was during a secret meeting. Because so far I haven't found any evidence that proves when, where and how that happened ,or if it really happened in the first place. It could be a myth, a lie or a fallacy as far as I know.

[Cinjin]

Never heard of such a thing.

Sounds ludicrous and I would go with the odds: Phony bologna bull shit.

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Is it true that the Pope John Paul II wrote a letter to Stephen Hawking asking him to stop his research and investigations?
Some people say it was a letter others that it was a official announcement and others say it was during a secret meeting. Because so far I haven't found any evidence that proves when, where and how that happened ,or if it really happened in the first place. It could be a myth, a lie or a fallacy as far as I know.

Ask the all-knowing Google.

http://www.catholicleague.org/hawking-mi...n-paul-ii/

[Minimalist]

By itself science cannot resolve such a question: it requires human knowledge which rises above the physical, the astrophysical, what we call the metaphysical; what is required above all is the knowledge which comes from the revelation of God.”

Um, I have more confidence that science will come up with an answer than I do in Pope Kidfucker's silly-assed god.

[Zidneya]

Ask the all-knowing Google.

http://www.catholicleague.org/hawking-mi...n-paul-ii/

Well that answers the where and when however it raises some questions. Because well let's face it from a catholic stand point. Of course Hawking misrepresent what the Pope said right? I mean the all loving church will never try hide the truth right?

Also the whole Vatican conference on cosmology sounds a little….I dunno doubtful.
Because let's face it, what's next? A playboy campaign on purity balls?

[vorlon13]

Yes, what kind of records do the Catholics have of the conference? Stenographers notes of who said what, or a murky video tape or an analog audio cassette or what the pope self reported he said later when asked ??

And as for a Catholic conference on cosmology in 1981, imagine how well served the church would have been to instead had a conference on child molesting priests. Not only would the church have reaped BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars later spent on lawsuits, lawyers and judgments, but some children might not have been molested at all, and some children molested many times, might have been molested fewer times !!

Sounds like a win-win to me, too bad God didn't send a memo to the curia in time.