>Hawking has more than once publicly claimed he wished he had never
>proposed the idea of a singularity as the beginning of the universe.
I know that. It's called revising your theory.
I also know that the latest edition of Brief History of Time, as well as Hawking's book called Universe in a Nutshell is replete with references to the Big Bang. Hawking does not call it a myth, which is what Mage did.