Hawking's "The Grand Design" - Bogus?

Given the existence of gravity "The universe can and will create itself from nothing," says the great man among men, Hawking. There is reference to "Spontaneous is creating," for his reasoning of how nothing became something in his new theory, how and why the universe was created. He goes on to say, "it is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper (fuse) and set the universe going." From this, we all came into existence from. He thinks he has answered the ultimate question of life in the universe, saying, implying, "Gravity."

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