Scientists reach, stretch, fill in the gaps of their understanding with scientific faith. They are the parishioners of their own religion. Oddly, this “gap filling” is exactly what scientists claim religious God followers have always done. There may be no greater gap-filling person of faith than Steven Hawking. He is the leader of countless sheep, despite his circular reasoning and unsubstantiated claims. Recently, “[h]awking stated that according to his [own] theories, time started at the Big Bang. Before the Big Bang, no time, hence no creator” (Stack Exchange).
This “scientist” hopes to convince us all that time did not exist before the Big Bang. It is this claim that Hawking hopes will convince those of faith, scientific faith, that God could not have acted to create the universe because actions require time to be orderly. In other words, for a sequence of events to take place, time must exist. God could not bring about the universe because to do so would mean creation happened after the desire to create, and as such, the act of creation could not possess sequence purely based on the conjecture that time did not exist to begin with.
Herein lies the rub. Before you gasp and clap for Hawking’s insight, let’s look at his claim. First the universe did not exist, then the Big Bang happened, and poof! Like magic, everything popped into existence. That sounds like sequence to me, as in, time must have existed for the Big Bang to happen the way Hawking purports. Hawking would undoubtedly have something to say about the way I have characterized his claim, and I suspect it would go something like this: “No, there was nothing before the Big Bang. It was not a sequenced event, first not existing and then existing. It just suddenly happened with no point before it in the past.” Really? You know what this sounds like?
Scientists have several “go to” phrases/arguments that conflate creationist’s claims into absurdities, in the hopes that oversimplification will detract from assaults against their scientific religion. There is no greater frustration, for those of scientific faith, than causal claims about the universe that include God as the Creator. One of the most common tactics scientific religious practitioners employ is to ask where the universe came from, and then inquire “who created God?” The absurdity they hope to produce is one which implies that everything has a cause in time, so if one claims God created the universe, then infinite regress seems to make it impossible. Why is this relevant? Because this sounds quite a lot like Hawking’s claim above. People of scientific faith often hope to sidestep claims of creation by arguments of infinite regress, but now it seems that they too are claiming they need no causal answer for the originating force of creation. If people of religious God faith are absurd for having no causal answer to God’s existence, then aren’t people of religious science faith absurd for having no causal answer for the Big Bang? Isn’t it obvious?
The difference between the two camps is fairly straightforward. The religious God camp claims a reason, an intelligent decision-maker, which seems to fit with what we witness in the world, is responsible for creation–things are created by creators, and there is no causal reason for God’s existence. The religious science camp, with Hawking as a church leader, makes claims that don’t fit with what we witness in the world–that creation happened spontaneously, and to make it fit the canon of their beliefs, it must be that nothing came before and there is no causal reason for the Big Bang’s existence.
Despite the fact that science cannot support these claims, test these claims by the scientific method, or otherwise prove anything they are 
saying in this regard (by their own standards), the scientific faithful ignore the hypocrisy and march forward with blinders on, acting on pure faith. Ignore the lab coats and look at the facts. The church of science doesn’t have the answers. They are making things up, going against their own methods, following faith instead of reason.
God makes sense. The millions who have testified about personal God experiences make sense–we have to discount millions of personal testimonies to discount God. They must ALL be wrong for the unproven scientific faith to be right. The reality of the world we live in makes sense. The stirring in your heart and the awe and wonder you feel make sense. The order in the universe makes sense, and can only come from a Creator. Don’t be lead astray by the false prophets of science. It’s OK to believe what you know in your heart to be true, even if you don’t have a lab coat.