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Stephen Hawking suggests in his book¹ "The Grand Design" that, given the existence of gravity, "the universe can and will create itself from nothing," according to an excerpt published Thursday in The Times of London.
"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 [fuse] and set the universe going," he writes.

Denis Alexander , director of The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, addresses this:
"Hawking's god is a god-of-the-gaps used to plug present gaps in our scientific knowledge.
"Science provides us with a wonderful narrative as to how [existence] may happen, but theology addresses the meaning of the narrative," said Alexander.

Another view:
Mr. Watts, an Anglican priest and Cambridge expert in the history of science, said that it's not the existence of the universe that proves the existence of God. But, he said, "a creator God provides a reasonable and credible explanation of why there is a universe, and ... it is somewhat more likely that there is a God than that there is not.
That view is not undermined by what Hawking has said."

My views:
From where does 'existence' itself come from so all the laws of nature may take their actions? Existence itself is the canvass for all to exist.
How can science pass up this question?

From where did the rules and order of nature come from?
From where does this gravity arise? What is the source?

praṇām

source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/09/02/hawking.god.universe/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn