I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first - Stephen Hawking

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die.

Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.

There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?

But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created.