I don't see from where you infer my need to google these names, or how that (if true) would refute my points above.

Hawking and anyone else are welcome to their opinion on religion (and politics and every other topic), but the fact that he his a genius in some field(s)doesn't make him an indisputable authorithy on everything and anything.

By the way, it's interesting that he is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the recipient of a Vatican onorificence, it tells something about open-mindness, I guess.