God didn't create the Universe

Prof. Stephen Hawking

God did not create the universe, world-famous physicist Stephen Hawking argues in a new book that aims to banish a divine creator from physics.  Professor Hawking says in his book "The Grand Design" that, given the existence of gravity, "the universe can and will create itself from nothing," according to an excerpt published in the London Times. 
"Spontaneous creation is the reason why there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist," he writes in the excerpt.  "It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going,"   His scientific answer is "M-theory," which, he says, posits eleven space-time dimensions, "vibrating strings, point particles, two-dimensional membranes, three-dimensional blobs and other objects that are more difficult to picture and occupy even more dimensions of space."

He says he understands the reason why Isaac Newton believed that God "created" and "conserved" order in the universe.  It was the discovery of other solar systems outside our own, in 1992, that undercut a key idea of Newton's -- that our world was so uniquely designed to be comfortable for human life that some divine creator must have been responsible.  Prof. Hawking argues that since there are untold numbers of planets in the galaxy, it is less remarkable that there's one with conditions for human life.  If there are many universes, one will have laws of physics like ours.  In such a universe something not only can but must arise from nothing.  Therefore the, much respected, scientist concludes that there's no need for God to explain it.  - Seems logical to me!