Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation.
Stephen HawkingSo long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?
Stephen HawkingBecause imaginary time behaves like another direction in space, histories in imaginary time can be closed surfaces, like the surface of the Earth, with no [existential] beginning or end.
Stephen Hawking