How do we respond when prominent scientists like Stephen Hawking write books propounding atheism

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Published on Jun 21, 2014

Some logical absurdities from The Grand Design:

“Because there is a law of gravity, the universe can and will create itself out of nothing.”

“The universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

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The book simply demands faith in M-theory, making it into a surrogate God. My review comment about this book that was published in the Mumbai Mirror article here:

http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Did-God-create-Universe-or-did-it-create-itself/articleshow/16049770.cms

Chaitanya Charan Das, ISKCON:

Hawking assumes that the laws of nature existed before the universe. He simply substitutes God with the laws of physics. Our experience shows that laws need an organising intelligence.