A segment of the debunking appears below. It's an interview about Hawking's denial of an actual beginning of the universe by Alister McGrath and Roger Penrose. For those not familiar with either, McGrath has earned doctorates in both molecular biophysics and theology....
Stephen Hawking
Stephen Hawking’s Category Confusion
It just goes to show that smart people can be awfully blind to obvious things. Mathematician John Lennox does a nice job here at showing how Hawking's recent dictum that God didn't create the universe is incoherent -- and nothing new.
Stephen Hawking: Look Out for ET (And the Tooth Fairy)
Because the wish of ET life out there moved to religious trajectory a long time ago. Pardon me for being a curmudgeon, but all this well-circulated story amounts to is a very bright physicist warning us about beings that, with respect to hard scientific evidence,...