wow you are returning to that deception. We have done threads on this where you refuse to put that quote in context... so here is the paper... which explains that quote.
in the highly speculative world of top down cosmology in which the constant sort of chose their histories... you can say gravity created the universe...
but in the universe we know... the universe looks designed.
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/hep-th/pdf/0602/0602091v2.pdf
Here hawking explains that if you work with the standard model that we have the universe is carefully fine tuned or you have to invoke the notion of eternal inflation (infinite universes.)
1.
In fact if one does adopt a bottom-up approach to cosmology, one is immediately
led to an essentially classical framework, in which one loses all ability to explain
cosmologyâs central question - why our universe is the way it is. In particular a
bottom-up approach to cosmology either requires one to postulate an initial state of
the universe that is carefully ï¬ne-tuned [10] - as if prescribed by an outside agency or it requires one to invoke the notion of eternal inï¬ation [11], which prevents one
from predicting what a typical observer would see.
Here - Hawking disabuses Stu of his other bullshit. We see Hawking clearly speak of alternate universes.
2. page 2.
Here we put forward a diï¬erent approach to cosmology in the string landscape,
based not on the classical idea of a single history for the universe but on the quantum
sum over histories [12]. We argue that the quantum origin of the universe naturally
leads to a framework for cosmology where amplitudes for alternative histories of the
universe are computed with boundary conditions at late times only. We thus envision
a set of alternative universes in the landscape, with amplitudes given by the no
boundary path integral [13].
Problem is, that's not the beginning of the universe. Big difference, rather infinitely big difference.
Only by rather perversely supplanting the word gravity with the word Creator do you get evidence of a Creator.
"Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing." Stephen Hawking
