Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why we exist, says Stephen Hawking. Photograph: Bruno Vincent/Getty Images
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God did not create the universe, the man who is arguably Britain's most famous living scientist says in a forthcoming book.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing," he writes. "Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/02/stephen-hawking-big-bang-creator
