So runner I take it that you think that you are able to tell who's good at physics and who isn't?

Personally, I'm having trouble believing that you would be a competent judge of someone's maths and physics skills. Do you have the requisite learning to make such determinations?

Perhaps you could demonstrate a little of your own skill and learning: maybe give us a run down summary of Schwarzschild's solution to Einstein's field equations? After all you should have no trouble doing so if you're a good judge of physics competence since is it one of the oldest and well known solutions to one of the simplest scenarios that the field equations apply to.

By-the-way: Hawking definitely understood this solution and could explain in a way that even non-physicists could appreciate. Let's see if you can do the same.

Thinkabit more Hawkins believed in fairytales. The fact that he was good at maths/physics does not nullify this fact. He denied the obvious (a Creator). Anyway feel free to worship your high priest. I will let His Maker judge whether he was good at science/pseudo science. The laws of physics obviously required a Lawmaker. Thinkabit more.

Piss off, runner.

The man is dead. Are you really so lacking in basic decency that you can't show a bit of respect?

What a disgusting little turd you are.

Thanks Toni, I did not want to respond to runner, thus giving his comments some worthiness, dignifying his contemptible rubbish. I think many of us would agree with what you just posted.

If you can leave this world, having given some small measure of happiness to just a few, then your life has been worthwhile. In Professor Hawking's case, he imparted both knowledge, and enjoyment to millions of others, a remarkable achievement. Well said Foxy.

And when did you start to value respect Toni. Amazing turn around.

runner,
Hawkins may have believed in fairy tales, but Hawking certainly didn't.

The need for a creator is far from obvious. As a Christian I believe there was, but it's not evidence for Christianity. All it's evidence of is your limited imagination, failing to comprehend that there could be any explanation other than "God did it!"

Denying the obvious is your game, not Hawking's. For example you deny global warming even though it's an observed phenomenon and the mechanism that causes it is well known. And apparently the reason you don't is that you believe in fairy tales - specifically the atheist neocons' fairy tale about belief in global warming being a religion.