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I didn't see the show could you explain it please?
Matter and anti-matter when in contact cancel each other out, annihilate each other, neither existing as we commonly understand existence. At the moment of annihilation of each particle energy is released. Energy from nothing.
On the flip side you can create matter and anti-matter particles using energy, as they do in the LHC.
The key tenet of Hawking's theory is that prior to the big bang there was no time. Therefore there is no need to posit what existed before the big bang as there is no "before the big bang". Time, space, gravity, energy and matter were all created in the big bang.
I could happily live with people calling the big bang, God if they like as the event was theoretically the genesis of our entire universe, and ultimately life and consciousness.
But this God has no idea why or what it created, no agenda, no plan for human kind and especially no set of rules for us to live by. It was simply an event without any conscious plan. It certainly had no hand in impregnating some Jewish woman with the express notion of creating a mechanism for forgiveness for the man made concept of sin.

