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? 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.

I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera.

The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.

Science does not deny religion, it just offers a simpler alternative.

The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.

A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

Maxwell is the physicist's physicist.