Stephen Hawking Lays It All Out

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science does not have absolute knowledge about the universe to infer if there is or not a god, science does not, at least yet, give any full explanation for our existence, unless you "believe" in certain hypothesis, which is kind of contradictory for someone claiming to be "sceptic".

Having beliefs and being a skeptic are not contradictory at all.

Being a skeptic means that you critically examine claims, you weigh evidence, you come to hold a position based on that evidence and examination, and you are willing to change you mind based on better, more in depth, more refined evidence that may come to light, even if it contradicts a previously held belief.

The thing is, objectivelly there's nothing to really "deny" the possibility of a god. Theistic Religion's gods? That's for sure, but "cosmological" possibility of a transcendant, timeless structure as creator of our everything is not exactly something that can be refutable without any sort of evidence, a theory is a theory, and every single of them might be accepted until it's refuted.

So Hawkings while putting his beliefs on his M-Theory is in fact also emotionally biased towards his own theory in opposition to an antagonistic belief for him that would be the existence of a god, for which he has actually no true arguments to hold against, besides his emotional bias.