If it wasn’t for morality based on religion, Stephen Hawking would’ve been aborted, left for dead, or otherwise hidden away from polite society.
So he can think what he likes, and say what he likes. But the way he belittles believers, I find off-putting.
Dr. Hawking is a scientist, not a theologian. He can hardly school Christian’s on the existence, or non-existence of our Lord. He is preaching to the choir.
You correct; if it wasn’t for our moral conscience, Dr. Hawking my not be with us today. If he had lived in Germany during the Third Reich, he would have been classified as a “useless eater” and exterminated.