Godly assertion

An eminent physicist recently reneged his own earlier position of the need for "God" to explain the universe. His new position, universe can happen out of nothing and our own current universe is one of many incarnations, is not anything new.  What is interesting though is that it is symptomatic of the lull in Physics – the field of enquiry that has been slowly declining for many decades now. The contemporary field is populated by story tellers and experimenters, some writing popular books...