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In June this year Professor Hawking said on British television that he did not believe that a ''personal'' God existed.
''The question is: is the way the universe began chosen by God for reasons we can't understand, or was it determined by a law of science?'' he said.
''I believe the second. If you like, you can call the laws of science 'God', but it wouldn't be a personal God that you could meet, and ask questions.''
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I think that's a perfectly valid point.
All personal beliefs aside - basically in 'A Brief History of Time' he concluded that everything back to BB naturally follows from the mathematical laws of nature and the values of constants such as G. But that he could not rule out that God (or whatever we choose to call him/her/it) had originally set the whole thing in motion.
Given that ABHoT was written some 20? years ago I find it entirely reasonable that he may now be convinced that there is actually no room left for a God, that even the BB itself follows naturally from the laws of nature. And why not say so then?