Thanks, I didn't want to attack him personally for any reason (though a few have let me know I could have been tougher on him, lol). My thinking wasn't so much to condemn him or anything, but that the biggest smackdown possible would be to critique his SCIENCE. If there were holes in his proposed models that he claimed got him around the need for God, then that needs to be exposed more than his personal life.
I know. I just find it hard to be uncivil to someone like that who has lived most of his life trapped in that body. I figure I can take a pass. There are more than enough people who want to let him have it, but I suspect Mr. Hawking knows the truth now, and there isn’t anything we can do that will make it worse for him.