Was our universe created by the God?

I am a Christian, and I believe that the universe was created by God. No one really knows the exact absolute answers to your questions. In Stephen hawking’s book, brief answers to big questions, he answered these questions. His answers weren’t absolute, but this was according to what he thought might be right.

He said that the universe didn’t need God to be created. If you go back when the whole universe was condensed in a single point, called the singularity, he said that in this way, this singularity behaves very differently from our daily experience. A cup of coffee must be created by someone. However, in the quantum world, things can exist and disappear randomly without the need to be created. It might seem to be counter-intuitive, but this is what the science believes to be true. Also, the big bang itself doesn’t need someone to initiate it. It just initiated itself. It had a complex explanation in his book but again, this is what science believes to be true. Moreover, he said that according to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, space and time are connected together. Since the beginning of the universe was like a very small black hole, and as we know that time behaves differently as we approach black holes. To a distant observer, clocks near a black hole would appear to tick more slowly than those further away from the black hole. Due to this effect, known as gravitational time dilation, an object falling into a black hole appears to slow as it approaches the event horizon, taking an infinite time to reach it, so this means that inside a black hole, time stops. In other words, there was no time and, thus, no space. In other words, there was literally nothing. How god created it if time itself didn’t exist before the beginning?

Here are some quotes from his book:

Asking before what came before the big bang is meaningless—like asking what is south of the south pole—because there is no notion of time to refer to. The concept of time exists only in our universe.