I Can't Stand It When People Fight Over Religion

@Pfuzylogic With respect that misses the point. Science proceeds by questioning, testing and reviewing, not casting the first idea in stone, as dogma.

So if some of Prof. Hawking's theories later prove incorrect in the light of newer evidence perhaps from refined techniques, so be it - and he would have accepted it. Scientists are human and like all people they can be wrong; and not all are good at accepting being proven wrong, but that's the name of the game. The vast majority are honest, and they leave blind dogma one must never question, to people terrified of questioning or being questioned.

Besides, which models in which branches of the sciences did you have in mind? Can't have been those of electricity and magnetism, and light, obviously!