Frank Tipler has definitely tipped over
He was bad enough with The Physics of Immortality, but now he has
come out with ... The Physics of Christianity:
http://www.math.tulane.edu/~tipler/
See this review here to see how badly he gets even basic physics wrong:
http://genesis1.phys.cwru.edu/~krauss/Tiplerreview.pdf
Perhaps some day in the distant future, the media will bother to learn just
enough science to know that just because some guy has a Ph.D and works
at a university does not automatically qualify him to be taken seriously when
he comes out with ideas that belong on the blog of some guy who lives in
his parent's basement.