One could still imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as tho… - Stephen Hawking

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One could still imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!

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About Stephen Hawking

Stephen William Hawking CH CBE FRS (8 January 1942 - 14 March 2018) was a British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology within the University of Cambridge.

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Native Name: Stephen William Hawking
Alternative Names: Hawking S. W. Hawking stephen S. Hawking
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