From: String theorist Michio Kaku: 'Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea'
Stephen Hawking said that he didn’t believe in God because the big bang happened instantly and there was no time for God to create a universe, therefore God couldn’t exist. I have a different point of view. My parents were Buddhists and in Buddhism there is Nirvana, timelessness, no beginning and no end. But my parents put me in a Presbyterian church, so I went to Sunday school every week and learned about Genesis and how the universe was created in seven days. Now with the multiverse idea we can meld these two diametrically opposed paradigms together. According to string theory, big bangs are happening all the time. Even as we speak, Genesis is taking place somewhere in the cosmos. And what is the universe expanding into? Nirvana. Eleven-dimensional hyperspace is Nirvana. So you can have Buddhism and Judeo-Christian philosophy in one theory.
"Stephen Hawking said that he didn’t believe in God because the big bang happened instantly and there was no time for God to create a universe, therefore God couldn’t exist."
Just because time for our universe may have started when our universe was created in the big bang, it does not mean that time didn't exist in what existed before.
Of course as Christians we believe, that God, who is eternal was there already. God may well experience time, a timeline for Himself, not to age or change but just to mark events (which is what a timeline really is, just an event marker)
So for God there was a time before He created the angels and a time after, there was a time before He created our universe and a time after etc.
Just like i can watch a movie about a persons life in 2 hours, so the 'movie' timeline moves at a different speed to my timeline (as measured by my wall clock), so too we may exist in a timeline (and time speed etc), quite different to how time may pass in Heaven / spiritual realm.
Its a logical fallacy (ie logically self contradictory) and logical inconsistency to assume the universe started from nothing. Something MUST have been there to start with to give rise to the universe, unless of course your definition of nothing isn't really nothing.