Very interesting.
Hawking is no fool, however the fools will interpret this as evidence there is NO god.
It all depends on how you define God.
Once an ant tries to define God from its perspective, every attempt falls short and is pretty much always wrong no matter how hard the ant tries to articulate his perspective.
Hawking is right that: as most ants describe God, his discoveries do NOT require any of them.
However, I for one choose to believe that God is in all things and even believe I know a part of how all things were created.
We know that with all creation, with every objective thing that ever was created or observed as existing, we know consciousness is manifest and therefore involved. Certainly your consciousness is required for you to know of any creation or the existence of any THING. Observing is evidence of consciousness and the first evidence that “being” exists. This evidence is shown and manifest every time anything is observed. Even the observations you make! To the knowing, God is seen in everything! Would one dare say: God is seeing in everything? Sounds the same?
Consciousness is but an intelligent awareness, an aspect of “being”. I believe that “being” is God, that all “being” is God as all being started first with the one being including the portion of being given you.
Accepting this definition, we know God exists as intelligent “being” and to deny the existence of God requires denying you have “being”, denying that you “are”, ultimately denying that you “exist”. Intelligent consciousness is seen in every observation of anything, it is see in all that is seen. Maybe better said: God is seen in every seeing.
While we may not be able to describe God except to say just look at everything and you’ll see God there. This description of God is often too big, too convenient, too much for acceptance by those that are narrowly focused on objects of observation and seeing themselves as separate from them and God.
I can only say: isn’t it awesome this majestic God that I know; big enough to include all the realities we individual perceivers behold including the atheist’s reality that lets him exist while excluding the God he is within. Now that is a enigma wrapped in mystery!
That’s my story and I am sticking with it! Because that’s my reality and my experience.
After all what does anyone have, even Hawking, but the reality from which one forms their interpretations called experience!
Believe it! Realize it!