I find it much much less likely that you quoted him accurately. Because, if he did that he contradicted his own definition. Do you have any idea how many times some jackass misquotes a celebrity on the internet or even more common how many times a celebrity's name is falsely put on a quote?

Whoops, the problem I have with faith is with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_singularity

"According to general relativity, the initial state of the universe, at the beginning of the Big Bang, was a singularity."

I have read Dr. Hawking say that we cannot know what is in a singularity because NO INFORMATION other than gravitation force escapes from a singularity. For the Big Bang singularity there was not even an external universe from which to measure it. You are saying that somehow, now by claiming that he has somehow measured or deduced the lack of the passage of time from measurements within this singularity and positively reported that there was none and that therefor there is no God.

I heard no report that he has a brain tumor and therefor I don't believe you. Sorry. Do you have the book? can you give me an exact quote so that I can look it up?