Fine tuning argument assessed

[Chas]

Except that statement is a very poor summary of the article, and the article is a very poor description of what Hawking said.

He doesn't say that black holes don't exist. He says they aren't quite what we thought they were.

This is called science. Our understanding is improved by new data and new theory.

You're making the classic mistake of appealing to authority instead of thinking for yourself. Such things as dark matter, black holes, and the Big Bang are pure BS. If you actually think about them you will see that they make zero sense. They are comparable to belief in some cosmic deity who is only concerned with a small group of people on a small plot of land on a small planet in the whole universe.

Please point out what you perceive as an appeal to authority, because there isn't one there.