“With the expansion of science, it becomes more and more complicated to talk about God in simplistic terms,” writes Stanford physicist Andrei Linde. “Apparently, the laws of the universe work so precisely that we do not need any hypothesis of a divine intervention in order to describe the behavior of the universe as we know it. There remained one point which was hidden from us and which remained unexplained: the moment of creation of the universe as a whole. The mystery of creation of everything from nothing could seem too great to be considered scientifically.”
