Ready now: Being wrong doesn’t make you less smart. He starts from a different place and therefore gets different answers. I know G-d exists. Hawking doesn’t. Does that make me smarter than Hawking? Of course not. That would be absurd. There is a Brachah to be made on Chochmei Umos Ha’olam. Don’t deny what HKBH created just because you don’t like what Hawking believes.
(There is a famous story about a Talmid of R’ Chaim Soloveitchik who became a physicist and worked with Einstein. The quote attributed to him, I believe, is, “Einstein had a better Kop but R’ Chaim had a better Koach Hahesber.”)