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There's little doubt that Hawking is an incredible mind, capable of understanding things on a level the rest of cannot reach. It doesn't make him right. And as noted, as more accurately described in Britain, his work says God is not necessary. He did not say, as suggested in the US headline, that God is ruled out. His arguement is that given the conditions extant at the time of the Big Bang (and there are viable theories that don't require a Big Bang), the universe as it is now was inevitable. God was not required, given those conditions.
What he cannot explain, because it cannot be deduced from anything in this universe, is what gave rise to those conditions in the first place.
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