Let me explain ding's very odd, childish behavior, if I may:
About 30 years ago, the lump between ding's ears was just growing mature enough to tackle complicated scientific topics. At that time, his mind was already handicapped by religious nonsense and zealotry. So, what young ding did was construct a paradigm of plagiarized arguments, tailored to our knowledge and hypotheses at the time, that he used to convince himself that science supports his magical dogma.
However, since then, we have gained a lot of knowledge and have formed new, consistent hypotheses that undermine ding's little pet paradigm. These render many of his archaic arguments either moot or just completely invalid, due to their resting on dubious premises we have since left behind.
Ding, beholden to static, incurious religious dogma, is unable to discard or alter his favorite little toy: the self soothing paradigm he created.
As such, his behavior is very childish and predictable. New knowledge? Nope, gotta be wrong. New, consistent hypotheses? Why, just "gimmicks". New models proposed by people like Hawking? Why, we will just ignore those and only present material Hawking produced decades ago.
Ding doesn't understand any of the material I have presented to him, because he does not WANT to understand it. This is what static, incurious religious dogma does to an otherwise reasonable adult.