But that’s the whole point of the argument. Hawking has only pushed everything “one step back”. The problem is he doesn’t recognise that. He thinks that he has disproved the entire contention of the existence of God based on this theoretical postulation that “nothing” can become “something”. And of course he hasn’t.
What Hawkins has done, and what atheism must do, is to powers of Deity to matter, which essentially leads to worship of nature (which is what Hitler privately proposed). And which is exactly the case referred to in Rm. 1, with the resultant moral decline. “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, “ (Romans 1:22)