Hawking's new book does not dismiss the real God from creation,
Jesuit scholars say  Dr. Stephen Hawking, Br. Guy Consolmagno
and Fr. Robert Spitzer    When this is understood, Fr. Spitzer
said, Hawking's basic confusion becomes clear. Although Hawking
talks about the universe “creating itself from nothing,” he is
presupposing that this “nothing” somehow involved gravity and
other fundamental laws of physics, Fr. Spitzer explained.
“Let’s take the law mentioned by Dr. Hawking above – the law of
gravity,” Spitzer wrote. “It has a specific constant associated
with it and specific characteristics, and it has specific
effects on mass-energy and even on space-time itself. This is a
very curious definition of 'nothing'.”  “Now,” he continued, “if
we rephrase Dr. Hawking’s statement in the above fashion, then
he has clearly not explained why there is something rather than
nothing. He has only explained that something comes from
something,” by describing the development of a functioning
universe on the basis of law