You're factually breaking the laws of logic. One being the " The Law of Non-Contradiction" ....The universe cannot have a beginning and existed eternally, at the same time. That's a contradiction. Logically, it has to be one or the other, it CAN'T BE BOTH. Here are the words YOU USED pepper...."What does it mean to say the universe was always there? We believe it started with the Big Bang"..... I ask you Pepper, HOW could it have been STARTED if it was ALWAYS THERE?
You are forced to excercise your FREE WILL CHOICE and choose one or the other. If the universe had a beginning (which is where the SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE POINTS) then you must have a first cause. If you believe it had a beginning but can't accept God as the beginner then you must give a CONCLUSIVE scientific cause for the beginning whereas the science STILL POINTS to the necessity of a cause OUTSIDE the limitations of Darwinist science.
If you believe the universe has ALWAYS EXISTED then you MUST GIVE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE to support the claim, and all you can give because of your LIMITED science is conjecture (guesswork) whereas the science evidence, STILL points to the universe as having a beginning.
God IS infinite because as I said God transcends time, therefore would naturally transcend space. You given me NO ANSWERS Pepper. I want you to answer my question. The answer is inevitable. If you can't answer the question then just be honest and say so.
Don't attempt to give a Quantum Mechanic answer as being logical because it ignores breaks the Second law of thermodynamics scientific law plus the law of cause and effect, plus the philosophical law non-contradiction and law of cause and effect.
You're being duped Pepper. Because their are laws that rule science and philosophy and your premise and Hawkings breaks them by ignorance.
Hawking is trying to propose a theory to show that there doesn't have to be answer as to WHY in science. That absurd. Complete stupidity.
Theroies are just that theories until proven by science. Isn't it interesting that secular science has failed to prove its own theories?