The scientist has claimed that no divine force was needed to explain why the Universe was formed.
In his latest book, The Grand Design, an extract of which is published in Eureka magazine in The Times, Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”
He added: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”
And of course the laws of physics were moving objects and particles that, of course, were just there all along. Where they came from? No one knows, but of course it can’t be God because that’s just silly.
It never ceases to amaze me how “scientists” and “academics” can stare you dead in the face and tell you that the world was created by forces acting upon objects and then when you suggest that the objects came from somewhere, they immediately stop the discussion.
Everything starts somewhere. Whether you believe Adam and Eve were created or they evolved from a puddle of primordial ooze, they had to start somewhere. That is now and always has been my point. To accept that things were “just there” and so on requires no less faith than saying God created the universe in seven days.