[MrB]

Don’t get me wrong - Hawking is BRILLIANT.

But he’s handicapped by his absolute insistence on materialism.

If you have a blindspot that you absolutely refuse to explore, even though the evidence points there, you’re going to start having to twist yourself in knots to avoid that conclusion. And, I suppose the more brilliant you are, the more convoluted those knots are going to be.

[joebuck]

I agree completely and his materialist blind spot is what caused him to come up with something as goofy as parallel universes. His preconceptions are what keep him from being considered in the same league as Newton, Einstein, Galileo, etc.