Stephen Hawking: God didn't create universe

He was not able to come up with his planned legacy of a unified field theory, so instead he attempts to be a modern Copernicus. If you don't believe me, read the intro to "On the Shoulders of Giants." The man is obsessed with the legacy of great minds of science and does not want to be second to Einstein in his legacy. He is not coming up with anything new here. Scientifically speaking, the universe could have been created by any number of things. There is nothing to go on but theory and incomplete observations of our universe, and he thinks he's figured it all out. Can he explain why everything works the way it does?

I had really, truly hoped he would have the legacy he'd hoped for, but this... this is just crap, and he knows it. I knew he was off his rocker when he asked Yahoo Answers, "How can the human race survive the next hundred years?"

Actually, if you follow the "infinite parallel universes" theory, then there is therefore a universe that exists that has a God who did create everything else; though this "many worlds interpretation" seems to have Hawking feeling that the other universes are unreal or "not real".

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Many-worlds_interpretation

But who claimed God created the universe in the first place.

We've been saying all along, that upon investigation, it is clear that the _mind_ creates the world we perceive, including our own bodies.

However, what is conscious of existence can be called what you want .. God, Being, etc.