The Grand Design
by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
Stephen Hawking
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Leonard Mlodinow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Mlodinow
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.