Dinesh D'Souza Repudiates Stephen Hawking and Imaginary Numbers

I like to have a little background conversation on when I putter around in the studio. The other day I listened to The Great God Debate: Dinesh D'Souza vs Dan Barker. Nothing like a nice long dust-up between a Christian apologist and an atheist. This one featured a delicious moment of inanity:

Dinesh D'Sousa: Here's what Hawking says. He says maybe the universe came into existence in what he calls quote "imaginary time". Is there such a thing as imaginary time? No. Where does the idea of imaginary time exist? Pretty much in Stephen Hawkings' imagination. (Part 1, 29:39)

Dan Barker: You're misconstruing what Hawking meant by imaginary time. He's using the word "imaginary time" in the same way that mathemeticians use the phrase "imaginary numbers". (Part 1, 39:56)

D'Souza: Stephen Hawking, just to say a word about him. Just to give you an idea of the, in a sense, nonsensical arguments to which atheists are reduced. What's an imaginary number?  Dan spoke of an imaginary number. An imaginary number is something like the square root of negative 2. Now, theoretically, it's a concept, I agree. You can do mathematics with the square root of negative 2. But if somebody were to ask you, "Do you have the square root of negative 2 dollars in your pocket?" you would say, "No, that's ridiculous!" It's a concept, but it has no equivalent in actually existing reality. Stephen Hawking admits that. (Part 2, 00:20)