The creation of the universe and the creation of man can be answered in simple terms, “God created everything”. I feel that the answer is not that simple, its beyond our comprehension, and our brains are not yet fully developed to comprehend it. I won’t knock Hawkings on his believes or theories because we can’t prove it one way or the other. He could be right or he could be wrong, at this point, its like saying God created man, or did man create God? I do believe that Hawkings IQ level far exceeds that of the average person and I do not believe he is the spawn of the Devil.
As I posted to someone else a couple of days ago concerning a different topic.
“For a long, long time I have had the notion that many or maybe most people have a way of pretending that really complex issues are simple while refusing to understand things that are really simple and I mean things as simple as, “There is no free lunch”.