[libertylover]

Worse, Hawking was convinced that humanity was facing extinction. He once claimed that humans would have to abandon Earth in a century...He was equally fearful of artificial intelligence ... If humans or their machines weren’t the agents of our civilization’s demise, then Mother Nature would intervene..

Imagine what the media would say if Billy Graham or Rush Limbaugh said things like this.

[Tallguy]

The Media already lampooned Jerry Fallwell when, as they characterized it, he prayed to divert a hurricane. They don’t get the irony in treating Fallwell one way, and Hawkins the opposite.