Idiot Genius...Stephen Hawking says Everything was formed from “
Nothing”
What a Moron.
So I take it you are not a theist of any traditional sort. Classical monotheism, whether Christian, Jewish or Muslim, holds that the created world was created out of nothing, and that space and time themselves are created.
Hawking just provided a mathematical model of what a universe created ex nihilo might plausibly look like from within in terms of physical laws extrapolated from those we observe to extreme circumstances at the beginning of time.
The hold of atheism on the materialist mind is dismayingly strong: Hawking can’t see, or can’t accept, the obvious answer to his own question “What is it breaths fire into the equations and makes there be something for them to describe?”